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The Summer 2012 edition. This magazine is a collection of photo-intensive stories about features artists in the Vail Valley's finest galleries, as well as brief overviews of each gallery. A product of the Vail Daily.TRANSCRIPT
VAIL VALLEY GALLERY GUIDE | SUMMER 2012
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Editor’s letter
Sometimes when I visit an art museum or a gallery and I don’t have much time to
explore, I play a secret game. I walk through the hushed hallways and rooms at a clipped pace. My eyes scan the walls intently. Inside, I’m quivering in anticipation. I’m looking for the piece that will reach out and grab me.
And that’s how it feels when it happens. Like I’m physically being drawn towards a certain painting. Sometimes it’s the way the painter has captured light on the canvas so realistically I nearly gasp. Sometimes it’s the subject matter, or how a painter might take an everyday scene, like John Taft’s oil paintings of less-than-spectacular Colorado vistas, and make it transcendent.
It’s no surprise that by learning more about it, my appreciation deepens. Time and again, that’s what happens. Be it theater, music or a painting, each time I dive deep, I end up respecting the work in entirely new ways. While editing ART, I discovered new admiration for the quality of art on display in local galleries. We’re dang lucky. There aren’t many towns our size that boast the caliber of art we do. From Sybil Hill’s contemporary horse and fl ag mixed-media pieces on display at Masters Gallery to Aaron Fritz’s playful and evocative oil paintings hanging in Vail Village Arts, the styles, sizes, colors and mediums run the gamut but that one word — quality — persists.
While talking to Bill Rey, one of the owners of Claggett/Rey Gallery, he mentioned that if an interviewer asks an artist how long it takes to complete a certain piece, he or she is clearly a “rookie.”
“It’s irrelevant,” Rey said. “My dad (American West painter Jim Rey) would always respond ‘40 years,’ because it’s the expertise you’ve gained over the course of your life and your time in the fi eld that allows you to do what you do.”
It’s so very true. Whether the creation took two hours or two years has no bearing on the quality of the work.
And yet again, I fi nd I’m still learning. Still deepening my well of knowledge. That’s what I hope ART can do for you: provide you with a richer understanding about the treasures in our valley’s galleries. So go on, see what captures you.
Caramie Schnell
PUBLISHERDON [email protected]
EDITOR-IN-CHIEFWREN [email protected]
MANAGING EDITORCARAMIE [email protected]
DESIGNERCARRIE [email protected]
PHOTO EDITORDOMINIQUE [email protected]
CONTRIBUTORSMOLLY EPPARD KIM FULLERLAUREN MERRILLCARAMIE SCHNELLROSANNA TURNER MARY KELLEY ZELESKEY
MARKETING GUYMARK BRICKLIN
DISTRIBUTIONJARED STABER
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THE RACEHORSE | 60”X96” | OIL ON TWO PANELS | JAMES JENSEN
JAMES JENSEN
100 EAST MEADOW DRIVE | VAIL, COLORADO | 970.477.0600 | MASTERSGALLERYVAIL.COM
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Contributors
ON THE COVERS
“Near The Guadalupe,”By Robert PummillClaggett/Rey GalleryOil, cropped
“Wild Bunch,”By Carrie FellCarrie Fell GalleryOil and acrylic, cropped
Wren WertinSPECIAL SECTIONS MAGICIAN
What’s the fi rst piece of
art that made a strong
impression on you?
Grandma Tibby’s fabric
carvings.
If you could steal
something from a local
gallery, what would it be?
One of Dan Telleen’s ancient-
stamp pendants.
Lauren MerrillALPINE ARTS CENTER OWNER
What’s the fi rst piece of
art that made a strong
impression on you? I used to
go to the MET with my mom
and remember loving Renoir
and Monet paintings when I
was little.
What’s your artistic talent? I am an oil painter, but also love
drawing, jewelry and ceramics.
Carrie Calvin ART DESIGNER
What’s your artistic talent?
I’ve been making jewelry
since I was a youngster. Now
it’s my pasttime and passion.
Upcoming art event you’re
looking forward to: Art on
the Rockies at CMC this July.
Molly EppardART IN PUBLIC PLACES DIRECTOR
What’s the fi rst piece of art
that made a strong impression
on you? John Singer Sargent’s
“Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.” It
absolutely glows and I swear
you can smell the fragrance
from the garden.
Local artist you want to meet. I would love to meet James Surls.
Kim FullerFREELANCE WRITER
What’s the fi rst piece of
art that made a strong
impression on you?
“Where the Wild Things Are,”
Maurice Sendak.
If you could steal something
from a local gallery, what
would it be? Patrick Espy’s
painting “Vail.”
Rosanna TurnerFREELANCE WRITER
What’s the fi rst piece of
art that made a strong
impression on you? Seeing
Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” up
close at the Museo Reina Sofi a
in Madrid for the fi rst time.
First museum you visited:
Probably some historical
museum in Minnesota. My
dad was really into those. No
Disneyland for my family.
Caramie SchnellART EDITOR
If you could steal something
from a local gallery, what
would it be? Kathy Beekman’s
“A Perfect Summer.”
First museum you visited:
Not sure about the fi rst, but
the fi rst one I fell in love with
was the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art. I remember
feeling giddy.
Mary Kelley ZeleskeyVAIL DAILY INTERN
If you could steal something
from a local gallery, what
would it be? Vintage style
rings and bracelets from the
J. Cotter Gallery.
What’s your artistic talent?
I recently discovered that I’m
not horrible at pencil drawing
but I wouldn’t go so far as
to say it is a talent of mine. I
enjoy it, though!
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Contents
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10 C. ANTHONY GALLERYFeaturing Britten, Anton Arkhipov, L.M. Chan and Adam Stewart
12 CARRIE FELLFeaturing Carrie Fell
14 CLAGGETT/REYFeaturing Robert Pummill
16 COGSWELL GALLERYFeaturing Various Artists
18 GALERIE ZÜGER Featuring Britten
20 J. COTTER GALLERYFeaturing Jim Cotter, Goldsmith, Sculptor & Installation Artist
22 KARATSFeaturing Dan Telleen
24 MASTERS GALLERY Featuring Sybil Hill
26 THE SHELTON SMITH COLLECTIONFeaturing Masters of the American West
28 VAIL INTERNATIONAL GALLERYFeaturing John Taft
30 VAIL VILLAGE ARTSFeaturing Aaron Fritz
32 CALENDAR OFARTIST EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
35 GALLERY LISTING
36 VAIL’S PUBLIC ART PLAYGROUNDMolly Eppard
40 ARTIFACTSDid you know ...
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BEAVER CREEK
1 C. Anthony Gallery
2 J. Cotter Gallery
3 By Nature Gallery
4 PISMO Gallery
5 The Sportsman’s Gallery & Paderewski Fine Art
6 Christopher & Co.
LIONSHEAD
8 Matt Inden Photography
VAIL VILLAGE
9 Vail Fine Art
10 Cogswell Gallery
11 J. Cotter Gallery
12 Tony Newlin Gallery
13 The Squash Blossom
14 Karats
15 PISMO Gallery
16 Vail Village Arts
17 Galerie Züger
18 Claggett/Rey Gallery
19 Vail International Gallery
20 Masters Gallery
21 Sabbia Talenti
22 Forré & CO. Fine Art Gallery
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Beaver Creek Village Centennial LiftHaymeadow Lift
Skier Bridge
Repentance Sculpture
Vilar Center
Park Hyatt
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Born Free Express Lift
Eagle Bahn Gondola
Lionshead Village
Lifthouse Condos
Arrabelle
Ticket Office
Ice Rink
Park
Volleyball
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Clock Tower
Children’s Fountain
Checkpoint Charlie
Seibert Circle
Vista Bahn Lift
Covered Bridge
Information Center
Pirate Ship Park
Colorado Ski & Snowbard Hall of Fame
International Bridge
Vail Transportation
Center
10th Mountain Division Statue GORE CREEK
Vail Public LibraryDobson Ice Arena
Lionshead VillageVail Medical CenterAltitude Sports Club
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Solaris Sculptures
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A quality art gallery is typifi ed by the consistent breadth and depth of its collection. So when selecting work for the
C. Anthony Gallery, gallery director Josephine de Lucinges looks for art that maintains such a level of integrity.
But identifying what makes a particular artist stand out from the crowd can be diffi cult to put into words. Just what is that je ne sais quoi, that essence that you can’t describe?
As de Lucinges says, “It is something that speaks beyond the composition, beyond the media, beyond the subject.”
While the art at C. Anthony may transcend language, it is never beyond emotion. Those who step into the gallery often have strong responses to the work on display, ranging from joy to silence to even tears.
The essential emotional power of art is what connects the artist to novice viewers and afi cionados alike; indeed, the gallery’s philosophy is that one does not have to be an expert to enjoy art. Visitors vary from small children being introduced to art, to young couples purchasing their fi rst piece and seasoned buyers looking to expand their collections. For anyone venturing into the gallery, there is something to see.
One such artist with broad appeal is Britten, the gallery’s artist in residence. Her rich palate radiates an elemental energy, whether evoking an ethereal landscape or fl oral serenity. Britten’s abstract style evidences a profound art consciousness that immediately draws the viewer in. Her work is constantly evolving in unexpected and surprising ways.
Britten’s paintings tend to move with the changing seasons, and the new summer series is titled “Solstice” in celebration of light and color. Handmade paper and other textile materials add a different dimension to her vibrant oils and other media.
Describing the new works, Britten says, “This new layer creates one more window to crawl through when following the path of light.”
Also showing at C. Anthony this season will be Anton Arkhipov, L.M. Chan and Adam Stewart. Russian artist Arkhipov creates an enchanting world, expressing the idea that to dream is to create a reality. Characters fl oat in the air; cars soar over mountain peaks. Arkhipov’s paintings capture the imagination of infi nite possibility. Taiwanese artist Chan transforms leather into sculptures that express movement and emotion with exceptional realism. Aspens come to life in Stewart’s work. As a native Coloradan, his deep affi nity for the state’s beauty refl ects in his abstract sculpture and painting, juxtaposing color and texture against the whiteness of the trees.
Together, these artists exhibit a quality of spirit and exuberance that is C. Anthony’s signature. While knowledge often helps to elevate a person’s understanding of art, it is not necessary for a love of art. Great art touches the heart beyond knowledge.
De Lucinges sums it up well:“Art is about passion; it’s a search for the soul.”— BY BRITT HERRINGTON
This page, from top: “Aspens Near Beaver
Lake,” by Adam Stewart, 24 inches by 24
inches, mixed media
“Samurai Kojiro,” by L.M. Chan, 18 inches
high by 14 inches wide by 8 inches deep, leather sculpture
Opposite page: “Flare,” by Britten, 40
inches by 70 inches, mixed media
“The Race,” by Anton Arkhipov, 38 inches
by 40 inches (without frame), acrylic and oil
mixed media
C. Anthony Gallery61 Avondale Lane, Market SquareBeaver Creek | 970.845.8645canthonygallery.com
FEATURING
Britten, Anton Arkhipov, L.M. Chan and Adam Stewart
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C. ANTHONY GALLERYThis Beaver Creek gallery is
known for its diverse collection of fi ne art. The 4,000-square-
foot exhibit space includes a slew of art genres from a
plethora of artists: Expect new Western and wildlife bronzes
and paintings, Colorado nature oil paintings, work from still life
masters, French and Spanish impressionism, contemporary Italian realism, Russian artists;
modern pieces and abstract art.
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CARRIE FELL GALLERY
Carrie Fell Gallery expands on her brand
through the colorful and recognizable paintings
of local renowned artist, Carrie Fell. In
addition, the gallery represents exceptional
and innovative artists exhibiting expressions
in form of function and design.
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Bright lines and dynamic layers distinguish Carrie Fell’s paintings from the neutral sepia tones that classically defi ne the
Western genre. Her gallery brings a fl air to Valley style — the modern majesty of mountain expression.
“Her work is very contemporary — a lively and unique take on Western art,” says Daniel Ruedisueli, director of the Carrie Fell Gallery at Solaris Vail. “She takes subject matter like cowboys, Native Americans, and animals that you commonly see in Western art and really puts her own individual style and energy into them.”
The gallery opened in Solaris in December, and Ruedisueli says it was successful in its fi rst winter season. Fell has been painting professionally for 20 years and is a Colorado native. Her painting studio is in Denver, as well as her main showroom, but she has been sharing her work with the Vail Valley for 17 years. Her city and mountain locales mesh her style perfectly — blending the best of the West with the city’s glitz and glamour.
Fell says the new Vail gallery has defi ned her work in a new way, and those who have been involved have helped her evolve in a new direction.
“All these different art forms are coming together,” Fell says. “Now it’s about discovering the next layer. It’s about taking the name that I have developed and making it something different than it was before.”
Fell’s acclaimed work holds true, however, and the recurring narrative of the anonymous cowboy has recently been juxtaposed with her more
recent and intricate profi le of Native American identity. The opposing protagonists play different roles in her pieces, but in the Solaris space they tie together her consistent and classical Western themes.
“The bright colors and movement in her paintings bring something very unique to this subject matter of art that you don’t often see out here,” Ruedisueli says. “It offers something that I feel you can’t get anywhere else, and she’s also trying to do this with the other artists she’s bringing in here.”
Fell’s creations are always moving. It’s the momentum of stampeding horses as they seem to swirl toward an audience in full color and energy, straight from a crisp and clean canvas, as open and free as an untouched frontier.
“An art gallery should inspire other people,” Fell says. “It’s about helping them believe, and that’s what we want to do.”
Sculptor Phillip Glashoff is one of the artists whose work complements the Carrie Fell Gallery with a regional feel. His reclaimed sculptures stand strong throughout the gallery. The pieces are made entirely from found metal items on Glashoff’s family ranch in northern California.
Fell says it’s the other people who have been involved with the gallery who have made it ever-evolving.
“We’ve been pulling all these different strings together and making something new,” Fell says. “All these people are coming together into this center, and they are now helping to inspire me to move forward.” — KIM FULLER
This page: “Signature of Love,”
48 inches by 78 inches, acrylic and oil
Opposite page, from top left:
“Real McCoy,” 20 inches by 50 inches,
oil and acrylic
“The Posse,” 40 inches by 55 inches,
oil and acrylic
“Low Down Rebel,” 40 inches by 80
inches, acrylic and oil
Carrie Fell Gallery141 East Meadow Drive, Suite 209Solaris | Vail | 970.476.4117carriefellgallery.com
FEATURING
Carrie Fell
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Claggett/Rey Gallery100 East Meadow Drive, No. 10Vail | 970.476.9350claggettrey.com
FEATURING
Robert Pummill
Whether his painting is of rolling hills overlooking the Guadalupe River or a striking
sunset behind a peaceful meadow of bluebonnets, Texans — and those who’ve frequented the Lone Star state — will likely be drawn to Robert Pummill’s latest work.
Well-known as a Western artist, Pummill’s sophisticated landscapes depict the majestic Texas hill country.
With his hometown being Kerville, Texas, Pummill is very much drawn to Western themes and is interested in the cattle industry and trail drives.
“It is a subject matter that I enjoy and am really interested in,” Pummill says.
Much of his work includes horses, wagons or endless hills of prairie land. Just looking at it transports you, making you feel like you are standing in the hill country.
“We’ve represented him for almost 20 years, and he is one of the fi nest painters of the hill country and of Texas,” says Bill Rey, Claggett/Rey Gallery owner.
Some of Pummill’s art also includes Native American subjects. For the most part, he focuses his paintings on life during the 1840s to the 1900s.
Pummill took his fi rst art class at age 11 but has had an interest in it for as long as he can recall.
A few artists that he admires are John Sargent, Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth and some of the French Impressionists. However, he does believe that some of the greatest artists are still alive and working.
Rey sees very masculine qualities within Pummill’s paintings, which is what initially attracted him to
Pummill’s work.That, combined
with the large number of Texas visitors who frequent Vail, made Claggett/Rey Gallery the perfect place to showcase Pummill’s work.
“The collectors who buy his work just love it because there really isn’t anyone else painting these Texas environs at such a high level of art,” Rey says.
Pummill has been painting full time as a studio artist since the 1970s. The landscapes that have always been secondary in his work have now become the central focus.
His latest pieces are of tranquil Texas scenes, be it a misty morning or the fading light of a spring day. In the serene painting “Near the Guadalupe,” hundreds of bluebonnets dot a hillside, embodying the phrase “intricate yet simple.”
According to Rey, Pummill has reached the point in his career where he’s doing what he wants to do, with no real deadlines.
“He is at a wonderful place in life where he is painting for himself and hopes the public responds to it, which they do,” Rey says.
“As artists, we paint so that we can keep on painting,” Pummill says.
Pummill has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art and Western Art Collector magazines, and his newest landscape paintings can be found in the most prestigious collections around the world.— BY MARY KELLEY ZELESKEY
This page, from top: “Autumn in the Hill
Country,” 30 inches by 40 inches, oil
“Morning Blues,” 32 inches by 48 inches, oil
Opposite page from top:“Near the Guadalupe,” 32
inches by 48 inches, oil
“Late April,” 16 inches by 20 inches, oil
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CLAGGETT/REY GALLERY
The Claggett/Rey Gallery in Vail has
been selling fi ne art since 1989. The gallery represents more than 40 artists, each with a
national reputation for quality, which is what
has given the gallery its staying power.
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Cogswell Gallery223 Gore Creek DriveVail | 970.476.1769cogswellgallery.com
FEATURING
Various Artists
Cogswell Gallery is nestled in the heart of Vail Village in the Creekside building on Gore Creek Drive, a pedestrian-only area next
to landmark restaurants Up the Creek and Lancelot. In the last 30 years, John and Patti Cogswell have developed an extensive collection of bronze artists and Western painters. Their vast art collection has pleased visitors and art lovers alike with a variety of artwork in different media. Several artists have joined the gallery recently, including Jeff Desautels, Lorenzo Chavez, Corrina Johnson, Joan Zygmunt, Kathy Beekman and Dan Deuter.
Colorful pop artist Jeff Desautels started his career in the Navy working on nuclear submarines and then studied law at Yale. He uses palette knives to achieve his brilliant colors and textures. Desautels loves capturing color, light and texture in his artwork. His paintings of aspens, bicyclists and skiers are quite popular.
Plein air artist Lorenzo Chavez grew up drawing. He copied drawings from comic books and drew portraits of the kids around him. He was also inspired by family road trips in the southwest. Chavez teaches across the United States, has won many awards and his pastels have been featured in many art magazines. He also does beautiful oils, and spends many hours painting on-site. He fi nds much inspiration in New Mexico and Colorado.
Similarly, Corrina Johnson’s love of art started when she was a child drawing and painting animals, particularly horses. She won a scholarship to attend an art course after high school, and followed that with workshops and classes from professional artists and at the Scottsdale Artists School. She left
Washington State to pursue her art, and traveled between Scottsdale, Ariz. and Jackson, Wyo. before moving to Colorado. She enjoys painting and photographing animals and capturing their expressions.
Artist Kathy Beekman’s fi rst medium was crayons and even then she knew she wanted to be an artist. Her parents encouraged her artistic growth and instilled the belief that anything was possible. She won an art scholarship to Siena Heights University in Michigan, where she obtained her fi ne arts degree. She enjoys working in pastel on black paper, and uses her fi ngers to blend. She creates vibrant pastoral landscapes featuring luminous skies and old barns.
Sculptor Joan Zygmunt has been showing since 1978. Working in wood, stone and bronze, her exquisitely detailed sculptures depict her favorite subjects — birds and fl owers. Her work has won numerous awards at prestigious shows such as Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Sculpture in the Park, C.M. Russell Art Auction and the Ward Foundation World Championships.
Dan Deuter grew up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota where he broke ponies and horses. He started drawing at an early age and soon realized it was his passion. He worked as a cowboy in South Dakota before moving to Colorado in 1988 where he worked as a buffalo hunter, guiding 1870s-style horseback hunts. He has been able to paint from live scenes whereas other painters have to copy older paintings. His buffalo paintings are highly realistic and beautifully rendered. He also paints wonderful cows, horses and Indians in historical accuracy and detail.— BY SIMONE FODDE-CROTZER
This page, from top: “Out With the Birds,”
Corrina Johnson, 24 inches by 48 inches, oil
“Storm Chasers,” Dan Deuter, 24 inches by 36
inches, oil
“Autumn at the Pass,” Lorenzo Chavez, 18 inches
by 24 inches, pastel
Opposite page, clockwise from top left:
“A Perfect Summer,” Kathy Beekman, 22-3/4 inches by
30 inches, pastel
“Mountain Bluebird,” Joan Zygmunt, 13-1/2
inches in height, hand-painted bronze
“Summit Mt. Ventoux,” Jeff Desautels, 11 inches by
14 inches, oil
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–COGSWELL GALLERYFor more than 30 years, Cogswell Gallery, located in the heart of Vail Village, has represented the fi nest artwork. Gallery owner John Cogswell has created a collection of painters and sculptors whose common denominator in the visual arts is an unrequited love affair with the beauty of nature. In addition to new, fresh artwork, the gallery also carries European jewelry designs along with its classic collection of Native American silver jewelry.
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GALERIE ZÜGERThe artists represented by Galerie Züger are featured because of their unique freedom of expression. The painters, sculptors and collage artists all express ethereal notions. The Züger family has been in the art business for more than four decades in Aspen, Beaver Creek, Vail, Denver, Santa Fe and Dallas.
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When Britten picks up a paintbrush to start a new piece, there isn’t a vision in her mind’s eye
of what the painting will be when she puts the brush down at the end. There isn’t even a shadow or a whisper of what’s to come.
“In fact, I try to clear my mind of anything personal and open up to creativity in its pure form,” says Britten, a local artist who lives in Edwards. “When I paint, I’m sure I draw on subconscious memories of where I’ve been and experiences I’ve had, but never of anything particular.”
Britten’s work is most often described with light-oriented adjectives: luminous, refl ective, illuminating.
To get her trademark effect, Britten uses layers. And lately, she’s added a new layer: handmade paper from China, Japan and Italy.
Britten fi rst saw people making paper in Florence, Italy, when she spent a year there studying art some two decades ago, she says.
She starts each piece with water-based paint, which organically makes its own pattern, giving the piece its underlying texture and movement.
Next is a layer of gold, silver and copper leaf, applied with an adhesive. After that, she adds the paper, which gives the piece a visual and tactile texture. The fi nal layer is oil paint and resin. In the end, there’s about a dozen layers, which is what creates depth in each piece.
As Britten plays with each layer, adding an additional coat or two depending on how the painting is progressing, she often discovers that the earlier characteristics she might’ve considered an “accident,” are not.
“Those are the things that are the most beautiful things in my painting, the things I’ll end up highlighting at the end with oil and resin,” she says.
With so many layers in the mix, how does Britten know when a piece is “fi nished”?
“That’s everyone’s favorite question to ask me,” she says. “I go by feeling. How I create in general is just by intuition and feeling in that moment. There’s no other way to explain it. I just know; it’s intuitive.”
After she puts down the paintbrush for the fi nal time, she stands back, watches and waits.
“I look at the piece as if I’m just the viewer and not the artist,” she says. “Then I can see through the layers and listen to the painting and that’s when I know the name. They all have a very unique voice.”
Maybe it’s that voice speaking to the people who see Britten’s work.
“I watch clients and how they react to her work and there’s an emotional connection,” says Rayla Kundolf, gallery director. “I had one gentleman who liked a piece because it made him feel comfortable. It calmed him. He saw something in it that reminded him of something: ‘I’ve seen that sky before, or those colors before, those hues before.’”
Indeed, it’s that hint of a memory that makes Britten’s work, which fi rst appears abstract, very personal.
“From CEOs to little old ladies, there’s just something that speaks to them,” Kundolf says. “She captures people’s emotions.”
Britten’s work is also on display at Galerie Züger’s sister gallery in Beaver Creek, C. Anthony Gallery.— BY CARAMIE SCHNELL
This page: “Alight,” 60 inches by 60
inches, mixed media
Opposite page, clockwise from top:
“Elevation,” by Britten, 70 inches by 80 inches,
mixed media
“Bengal,” 20 inches by 40 inches, mixed media
“Opportunity 5,” 20 inches by 70 inches,
mixed media
Galerie Züger141 East Meadow Drive, No. 208Vail | 970.476.5619galeriezugervail.com
FEATURING
Britten
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When it comes to making jewelry, Jim Cotter isn’t afraid to go big. The artist and
jewelry designer is a fan of the “bigger is better” philosophy. Thinking large allows him to make “bolder pieces and more elaborate things,” Cotter says.
The artist’s latest designs take the massiveness of a shield and shrink it down to create stylish rings, pendants, earrings, brooches and more. Cotter used the shape of the shield in the 1980s but was recently struck by its symbolism.
“Shields were used in the beginning for protection,” Cotter says. “Then they became protective for spiritual reasons, (or) for decoration or ways of expression. … We all put shields up to protect ourselves.”
Known for his use of the unexpected, Cotter crafts shields using a variety of materials — gold, steel and even wood — and then embellishes them with paint, diamonds or gold leaf. Cotter’s skill lies in taking a familiar object and turning it into something worth a second-glance.
“One of the reasons I like the shields is that they’re old, but also very contemporary looking,” Cotter says. “They have an interesting newness that keeps my motor turning.”
For an artist whose wheels are always spinning forward on to the next “big” thing, Cotter sees size as a relative concept.
“It’s only too big when it’s on the other lady,” Cotter says. — BY ROSANNA TURNER
J. Cotter Gallery234 East Wall StreetVail | 970.476.3131
Market Square, Unit 5Beaver Creek | 970.949.8111jcottergallery.com
FEATURING
Jim Cotter, Goldsmith, Sculptor & Installation Artist
This page:Shield Brooches/Pendants,
wood, sterling silver
Brooch, steel and gold leaf; Ring, 14 karat yellow gold and
black diamonds
Shield Rings: steel, 14 karat yellow gold, diamonds
Opposite page, clockwise from top:
Rings, 14 karat yellow gold and black diamonds, 14 karat
yellow gold with ruby
Shield Brooches/Pendants, steel, gold leaf
Pendant, wood; Earrings, 14 karat yellow gold
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KARATSKarats is a working studio jewelry gallery accented with selected paintings, sculpture and ceramics. The gallery was named one of JCK’s Top 50 designer retailers in the country and the Vail Daily’s 2009 and 2010 top “Hands-On Jeweler.”
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The best client is an educated client, says Dan Telleen, owner and designer of Karats. When it comes to
jewelry, a great education is the result of a great teacher. Telleen is one such educator, enlightening and illuminating those who visit his shop about everything from the coins of ancient Greece to meteorites formed billions of years ago. Jewelry is notjust a way to join the past to the future; it also creates a chain that links us all, he says.
“The farther back we go, the more connected we are,” Telleen says.
Telleen demonstrates this in his work by taking an ancient seal and using it as an imprint on a belt buckle, or by crafting a locket from a raised Lady Liberty coin from the turn of the century. Each of Telleen’s pieces tell multiple stories: what it represented in the past, what he is trying to express with it now, and what it will mean to his clients n the future.
While some of us look at a coin and see its monetary value, Telleen sees much more. An avid collector since the third grade, he uses both the design and history of a coin to inform his work. The artist owns an ancient coin of the Roman god Janus, which he uses as inspiration.
“Janus was a god whose feet were planted solidly in the present, and was able to look into the past with clarity, and look into the future with imagination,” Telleen says. “Right now as a people, we really can do that.”
Telleen is like a modern-day Janus himself, taking his pieces and making them not time-“less” but rather expanding through the eras.
“Everything that I make today relates to something that I made in the past,” Telleen says. “Each design grows into the next design; it doesn’t just jump from one thing to the next. My jewelry is a lot about nature, a lot about texture, and a lot about evolution of time.”
The designer’s progression continues in his new work, which includes cameos, lockets and the
peace symbol. Telleen sees the peace symbol as being “back by popular demand,” not only in its design but also what it stands for, he says.
For Telleen, making innovative jewelry from ancient objects is not about taking something old and trying to make it new. Each piece reminds us that the relationship we attach to a ring, necklace, bracelet, or other adornment reaches back far beyond our own history. Just like the peace sign itself, the jewelry at Karats tells not only a personal story, but a universal one as well. — BY ROSANNA TURNER
This page: 14 and 18 karat gold peace
symbols with garnet, turquoise, malachite and
azurite beads
Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Sterling 18
karat and 22 karat gold earrings featuring image from ancient Greek coin
Lady Liberty locket, coin silver, 18 karat gold
Lapis with 22 karat gold clasp and Tahitian black
pearl with 18 karat double toggle clasp
Karats122 East Meadow DriveVail | 970.476.4760karatsvail.com
FEATURING
Dan Telleen, Jeweler
“Everything that I make today relates to something
that I made in the past.”
— Dan Telleen
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F ifty white stars are etched into a blue background. Thirteen stripes of red and white run horizontally around it. The American
fl ag is a powerful symbol with many meanings. But for artist Sybil Hill, there is only one word that comes to mind to describe this national icon.
“Freedom,” Hill says. “Being an artist has given me the freedom to do what I love and still give back.”
Hill’s father was a painter, and her twin sister is also a successful artist. Although she grew up painting, Hill didn’t start selling and showing her work professionally until eight years ago. She sold two paintings in her fi rst month and never looked back. When a friend gave her a box fi lled with more than 100 American fl ags, Hill incorporated them into her new pieces. Images of horses are also prevalent. The artist has always felt a special connection to the animals; she views horses as a metaphor for light, God and hopeful energy.
“The horse seems to be symbolic of this American spirit,” Hill says.
Hill wants her work to have a healing effect. With such an emotionally charged image as the fl ag, the artist sought to highlight rather than hide from people’s strong reactions to it.
“Through these layers — putting in the white paint and spackling — (I was trying to) lift things out of the bad, out of the darkness,” Hill says.
Adding the unexpected to an image we recognize instantly is a common theme in Hill’s work. The artist is always experimenting with new materials, some that most art teachers
would caution against.“I always come up with new things,
new formulas,” Hill says. “I mix oil and water when I’m not supposed to.”
While some artists use the American fl ag to present a political stance, Hill is making a positive statement instead. For the painter, the American fl ag is not just a patriotic symbol but it also refl ects her own personal memories. Hill still holds the image of one particular fl ying banner in her mind from growing up in rural Texas.
“We would drive past this huge open space and there was this huge fl ag,” Hill says. “It was a wave, almost like an ocean. There’s a beauty to it … it feels good, and that’s what I’m trying to create.”— BY ROSANNA TURNER
This page, from top:“Blue Crossing,” 42.5 inches by 30.5 inches,
mixed media
“Tango of Two,” 33 inches by 34 inches,
mixed media
Opposite page: “Reign of Two,” 82
inches by 105 inches, mixed media
“Texas Longhorn,” 41 inches by 33 inches,
mixed media
Masters Gallery100 East Meadow Drive, Suite 27Vail | 970.477.0600mastersgalleryvail.com
FEATURING
Sybil Hill
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MASTERS GALLERYMasters Gallery may be located
in the heart of Vail, but when you walk into the gallery you could be anywhere in the world. The
gallery offers an eclectic variety of international, local, traditional
and contemporary works of art for both the serious collector and the
fi rst-time buyer. To feed the legacy of art, the gallery also represents
traditional artists such as Earl Biss, Alvar, Pino, David DeVary and
Frederick Hart.
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Our summer 2012 Masters Show features a great selection of world-class Western art, including these
wonderful paintings.“A Touch of Winter” is a fabulous
painting by one of America’s premier landscape artists, Robert Peters. An acknowledged master, Peters’ fi ne paintings are displayed in every major American Western art museum.
Featured in our summer show are fi ne paintings by two members of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America: “Looking for the Buffalo,” by Jim Norton, and “Captured Pony,” by Martin Grelle. Norton and Grelle are two of the most popular Cowboy Artists of America members working today, and both have won almost every major Western art award.
“Thunder Mesa” is a beautiful painting by the young master G. Russell Case. Many critics have favorably compared Russell’s fi ne paintings to the great master Maynard Dixon.
Also featured in our summer show are works by the masters Curt Walters and Bruce Cheever. Walter’s magnifi cent painting of the Grand Canyon, “Shadow Play,” is a breathtakingly beautiful work of art. Cheever’s “An American Sentinel” is a great painting of the majestic Grand Tetons. Both are real treasures.
These six paintings are only a few of the masterworks available this summer in our gallery. Each of these fi ne works of art represent The Spirit of America and we are honored to present them to our friends and clients.— BY SHELTON SMITH
This page, from top:“A Touch of Winter,”
by Robert Peters, 30 inches by 40 inches,
oil on canvas
“An American Sentinel,” by Bruce Cheever,
35 inches by 41 inches, oil on canvas
Opposite page, clockwise from top left:
“Thunder Mesa,” by G. Russell Case, 30
inches by 40 inches, oil on canvas
“Shadow Play,” by Curt Walters,
40 inches by 60 inches, oil on canvas
“Captured Pony,” by Martin Grelle,
14 inches by 80 inches, oil on canvas
“Looking for the Buffalo,” by Jim Norton, 22 inches by 30 inches,
oil on canvas
The Shelton Smith Collection The Spirit of America227 Bridge StreetVail | 970.476.0100sheltonsmith.com
FEATURING
Masters of the American West
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THE SHELTON SMITH COLLECTION
Located on the banks of Gore Creek at the
Covered Bridge in beautiful Vail Village,
The Shelton Smith Collection is proud to present fi ne art of the Great American West.
Our collection includes paintings and sculpture by the past and present
masters, Native American antiques
and unique Western Americana. Here you
will fi nd the true Spirit of America.
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VAIL INTERNATIONAL GALLERYTrue to its name, Vail International Gallery has a worldly
demeanor. From Russian Impressionist pieces by Nikolai Timkov to contemporary wood carvings from Italian master Carlo Trost and striking oil paintings by Chinese-American artist Lu Cong, one could easily spend an afternoon in this
gallery just absorbing beautiful, cosmopolitan artwork.
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W ith paint and brushes in tow, artist John Taft was en route to a dramatic overlook
of the Piedra River near Pagosa Springs last summer when the sky above stopped him.
“I was driving along and these thunderheads were coming up, in the afternoon, over a simple hillside,” he remembers.
The image moved Taft to park the car on the side of the road, pull out his supplies and put the scene to canvas.
“Everybody is impressed with the spectacular mountain scenery we see out here,” Taft says. “It’s nice to see the same quality in the more mundane weather or in just a barren hillside or some clouds coming over the horizon: a relatively simple subject but one that has a lot of traction.”
Like in life, it’s not always sunny in Taft’s paintings. Take a 42-inch-by-48-inch autumn hillside of aspen trees he painted. Initially, he was hoping for blue sky and sunshine, but on the day he drove to the grove, the sun was elusive. It was too misty to work outside, so he took photos and drew some pencil sketches from the car.
“The weather didn’t cooperate in the initial idea sense, but I got two paintings from the trip and neither of them have sun,” he says.
While Taft, who lives with his wife and four children in Longmont, is primarily a studio painter, he fi nds his inspiration outdoors.
“Inspiration begins on location,” he says. “When you’re out and about, you have to be ready for the things that surprise you and grab your attention.
“The variety of terrain, seasons and
light offers an endless source of subject matter for a landscape painter,” says Taft, who has been painting professionally since 2004.
Taft likens his painting career, and its evolution, to a love interest.
“It’s a relationship that starts out with infatuation and excitement and matures in a way that gets deeper,” Taft says. “It seems to get richer the more I paint.”
Taft’s third solo show will be on exhibit at Vail International Gallery beginning July 14. The gallery has represented him since 2009.
“Ever since we opened our doors in 2005, we had been looking for a Western landscape painter who wasn’t too established in their career so that we could grow along with them but whose work was at a very high level of quality and well-priced … a very hard combination to fi nd, actually,” says Patrick Cassidy, who owns the gallery with Marc LeVarn.
After seeing Taft’s work, Cassidy “knew instantly that he was the painter we had been looking for.”
People who buy Taft’s paintings usually end up collecting more than one, Cassidy says.
“(Gallery visitors) usually respond to the fact that John’s paintings come from the heart and are done with a tremendous respect for the landscape,” Cassidy said. “John’s paintings have soul; they present the landscape as a living, breathing thing with a unique personality, and that is what makes people respond to his work with great enthusiasm.”— BY CARAMIE SCHNELL
This page: “Maine Wave,” 26 inches
by 36 inches, oil
Opposite page, clockwise from top:
“Grand Performance,” 32 inches by 72 inches, oil
“Changes,” 36 inches by 28 inches, oil
“Ascension,” 28 inches by 22 inches, oil
Vail International Gallery100 East Meadow Drive, No. 17Vail | 970.476.2525vailgallery.com
FEATURING
John Taft
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VAIL VILLAGE ARTS/THE VICKERS COLLECTIONLocated in the heart of Vail for more than 25 years, Vail Village Arts features artists from around the country working in a multitude of mediums. The gallery is easy to fi nd on East Meadow Drive — just look for the wind sculptures. The Vickers Collection, located in Beaver Creek’s quaint gallery row, represents more than 50 painters, sculptors and photographers.
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For an artist who lives in the mountain country of Utah, don’t expect a canvas of snowy landscapes anytime soon.
“I don’t paint winter scenes,” Fritz says. “It’s not my idea of what beauty is. I use color to brighten up the dark days.”
It’s these vivacious hues that help Fritz’s landscapes stand out rather than blend in. Fritz is an artist who has little interest in being in the background.
“Many times (people) are trying to fi nd something that fi ts on a wall,” Fritz says. “These paintings dominate the wall. (My work is) typically the focal point when you walk into the room.”
An artist with a fi ery passion for his pieces, Fritz is focused on expressing rather than impressing.
“I see myself as an expressionist rather than an impressionist,” Fritz says. “An expressionist paints their emotion at that time.”
As a young man, Fritz feared that trying to make a career through his art would result in living with his parents until he was in his mid-50s, so he pursued a business degree and set his artistic interests aside. That is, until a near-death accident involving his young son changed his outlook on life. He devoted his nights after work to
painting, and what used to be a hobby turned into a successful second career as an established artist. Ten years later, Fritz is still pushing himself to paint what others could never imagine.
“When you fi rst start painting you say, ‘ok, what is successful?’” Fritz says. “But after a long period of time you get to a point where you think, ‘What do I desire? What do I want to see?’”
Because Fritz did not go to art school, he is able to envision images outside of the classroom.
“Many artists take and paint what they can see in a picture,” Fritz says. “What I’m trying to say is, ‘What’s the mood, temperature, color contrast?’ I’m seeing colors that aren’t really there, but they are because of emotion.”
The artist strives to take what’s happening in the art industry and then do the opposite. In his paintings, trees turn into swirling dervishes that light up the room. In addition to winter scenes, there’s another thing you won’t see much of in Fritz’s work.
“You rarely see blue skies in any of my paintings,” Fritz says. “A blue sky is something you see on a daily basis, but through using a different color you can throw people off so they have an emotional reaction to it.”— BY ROSANNA TURNER
This page:“Who Let the Greens In,”
60 inches by 48 inches, oil on canvas
Opposite page:“Water Works,”
60 inches by 32 inches, oil on canvas
“Pass the Sugar,” 30 inches by 40 inches,
oil on canvas
Vail Village Arts122 East Meadow Drive Vail | 970.476.2070
The Vickers CollectionMarket SquareBeaver Creek | 970.845.7478vickerscollection.com
FEATURING
Aaron Fritz
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ART Exhibitions
JUNE 28-SEPTEMBER 30JESÚS MOROLESJ. Cotter GalleryBeaver Creekjcottergallery.com970.949.8111
JUNE 30FIDE GLASS BLOWINGCogswell GalleryVailcogswellgallery.com970.476.1769
JUNE 30-JULY 1SHAWNDELLE OLIVERMasters Gallery Vailmastersgalleryvail.com970.477.0600
JULY 4-8JEAN RICHARDSONCogswell GalleryVailcogswellgallery.com970.476.1769
JULY 5 & 6BRITTENC. Anthony GalleryBeaver Creekcanthonygallery.com970.845.8645
JULY 5 & 6INGRID MAGIDSONGalerie ZügerVailgaleriezuger.com970.476.5619
JULY 6 & 7JAMES JENSENMasters Gallery Vailmastersgalleryvail.com970.477.0600
JULY 13 & 14SYBIL HILLMasters Gallery Vailmastersgalleryvail.com970.477.0600
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JULY 13 & 14RANDY WIXGalerie ZügerVailgaleriezuger.com970.476.5619
JULY 14JOHN TAFTVail International GalleryVailvailgallery.com970.476.2525
JULY 14 & 15ART ON THE ROCKIESColorado Mountain College Edwardsvailartsfest.com
JULY 19ROBERT PUMMILLClaggett/Rey GalleryVailclaggettrey.com970.476.9350
JULY 20 & 21DEVONMasters Gallery Vailmastersgalleryvail.com970.477.0600
JULY 20 & 21DARCIE PEETCogswell GalleryVailcogswellgallery.com970.476.1769
JULY 20 & 21ANTON ARKHIPOVC. Anthony GalleryBeaver Creekcanthonygallery.com970.845.8645
JULY 22-27BERND MUNSTEINERJ. Cotter GalleryVail & Beaver Creekjcottergallery.com970.476.3131/970.949.8111
JULY 28JAMES SCOPPETONEMasters Gallery Vailmastersgalleryvail.com970.477.0600
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MONTH OF AUGUSTANNE HALEY-ENRIGHTJ. Cotter GalleryVail & Beaver Creekjcottergallery.com970.476.3131/970.949.8111
AUGUST 3 & 4LUIS SOTTILGalerie ZügerVailgaleriezuger.com970.476.5619
AUGUST 10 & 11ALLEN LUNDCogswell GalleryVailcogswellgallery.com970.476.1769
AUGUST 10-12DAVID JACKSONVail Fine Art Vailvailfi neart.com970.476.5619
AUGUST 13 & 14BRITTENGalerie ZügerVailgaleriezuger.com970.476.5619
AUGUST 15JANE DEDECKERClaggett/Rey GalleryVailclaggettrey.com970.476.9350
AUGUST 23-25JEFFREY DESAUTELSCogswell GalleryVailcogswellgallery.com970.476.1769
AUGUST 26ROBERT LOUGHEEDClaggett/Rey GalleryVailclaggettrey.com 970.476.9350
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BEAVER CREEKBY NATURE GALLERYMuseum-quality minerals, fossils, decor items and jewelry. The gallery has recently relocated to a bigger space on the Beaver Creek Plaza. 970.949.1805
C. ANTHONY GALLERYPaintings and sculpture in contemporary, impressionistic and classical genres. Elegant and eclectic. Located in Market Square. 970.845.8645
CHRISTOPHER & CO.The largest collection of antique ski posters in the world, in addition to product, travel and movie posters. Located in St. James Place. 970.845.8199
J. COTTER GALLERY BEAVER CREEK Contemporary jewelry and art since 1970. Many local artists are represented, including the owner’s jewelry and sculptures. Located in Market Square. 970.949.8111
KNOX GALLERIES OFBEAVER CREEK Featuring sculptures and paintings for the home, and monumental bronze sculptures for outdoor placement. Located in the Park Plaza Beaver Creek. 970.949.5564
THE SPORTSMAN’S GALLERYAND PADEREWSKI FINE ARTA wide array of sporting, wildlife and Western art. The two galleries are side by side. Located on the Plaza. 970.949.6036
THE VICKERS COLLECTIONA colorful collection of fi ne paintings and sculpture, along with graceful outdoor wind sculptures. Located in Market Square. 970.845.7478
WALT HORTON FINE ARTThe gallery represents a variety of artists portraying various subjects and styles. Many artists in residence create in the gallery throughout the year. Located on the Plaza. 970.949.1660
VAIL AND LIONSHEADCARRIE FELL GALLERYLocal artist Carrie Fell’s bright canvases are a blur of movement. In addition to her work, the gallery also represents other innovative artists. Located in Solaris. 970.476.4117
CLAGGETT/REY GALLERYTraditional American art, with subject matter ranging from historical Western and wildlife scenes to the classic European genre. Located in Vail Village, behind Campo de Fiori. 970.476.9350
COGSWELL GALLERYSpecializing in a variety of artwork including oil paintings, bronze sculptures, rugs and more. Located in Vail Village below the Children’s Fountain. 970.476.1769
FORRÉ & CO. FINE ART GALLERYA diverse representation of paintings, glass art and sculpture. Specializing in museum-quality works from international artists as well as 19th- and 20th-century masterworks. 141 East Meadow Drive Suite 203, located in Solaris. 970.476.0999
GALERIE ZÜGERThe painters, sculptors and collage artists represented at Galerie Züger all share a freedom of expression. The Züger family has been operating galleries for four decades in Vail, Beaver Creek, Aspen, Denver, Santa Fe and Dallas. 970.476.5619
J. COTTER GALLERY VAIL VILLAGE Contemporary jewelry and art since 1970. Many local artists are represented, including the owner. 234 E. Wall St. 970.476.3131
KARATSA working studio gallery of fi ne art jewelry, accented with selected paintings, sculpture and ceramics. Located next to La Tour, 122 East Meadow Drive. 970.476.4760
LOUGHEED STUDIO ATCLAGGETT/REYRobert Lougheed, a Cowboy Artist of America member, passed away in 1982. The gallery space is exclusively dedicated to him. Located across from Claggett/Rey Gallery. 970.476.9350
MASTERS GALLERYFeaturing contemporary, masters and collectible artists. Frequent receptions with artists present. 100 East Meadow Drive. 970.477.0600
MATT INDEN PHOTOGRAPHYNature photography that brings the outdoors in. 531 Lionshead Arcade Suite 14, next to The French Deli. 302.893.0703
PISMO GALLERY AT VAILFeaturing contemporary glass artwork, including fanciful chandeliers and balloons. Located next to La Tour, 122 East Meadow Drive. 970.476.2400
SABBIA TALENTISabbia Talenti offers Renaissance-style Italian majolica. 50 East Meadow Drive. 970.476.4505
TONY NEWLIN GALLERY AT SOLARIS Features nature, landscape and wildlife photographs, including scenes from Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and other U.S. national parks.141 East Meadow Drive Suite 205, located in Solaris. 970.479.9000
VAIL FINE ART GALLERYSpecializing in museum-quality art, contemporary Impressionism, oil paintings and bronze statues — especially from the Russian Soviet period. 141 East Meadow Drive, Suite 204, in Solaris. 970.476.2900
VAIL INTERNATIONAL GALLERY Featuring art from Colorado and around the world, such as Belgium and Russia. They represent some really cutting-edge artists, as well as classics. 100 East Meadow Drive. 970.476.2525
VAIL VILLAGE ARTSCaptivating wind sculptures outdoors with fi ne paintings and sculpture inside. 122 East Meadow Drive, next to Pazzo’s. 970.476.7150
Gallery Listing
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A ‘Granite Landscape’JESÚS MOROLES’ RED GRANITE SCULPTURES SETTLE INTO NEW HOME AT VAIL’S FORD PARK
by Molly Eppard – Art in Public Places coordinator, town of Vail
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WITH THE AMPHITHEATER-LIKE setting and a number of granite benches, it serves as the perfect gathering place for people to enjoy community activities, peaceful contemplation, or a simple game of hide and seek. Its non-obstructive design complements the natural venue. Visitors appreciate the interactive nature of the exhibit. Created from red granite, the material and vertical elements echo the mountains that embrace it from all directions.
Moroles creates a sense of atmosphere and space with “Granite Landscape.” One can wander through the installation and peer through the pillars to the Gore Creek, or sit upon a bench and gaze at the majestic Gore Range.
“Granite Landscape” was originally acquired by the town of Vail in 1998, and placed at the top of Bridge Street. The sculptures were relocated to Ford Park in Vail during the fall of 2011.
“I really like the new placement of the granite plaza, the setting in nature, river and mountains is a perfect surrounding,” Moroles says. “It captures a feeling that the granite landscape has always belonged there.”
The three free-standing sculptures are titled “Strata,” “The Fang” and “Gore Creek.” “Strata” is the tallest sculptural element, standing at nine-feet tall, and represents the valley’s geological rock formations in its roughly hewn, horizontally patterned texture. “The Fang,” an East Vail winter ice climbing attraction and a popular summer waterfall, is
OPPOSITE PAGETHE WEDGE SHAPED
GRANITE BENCH IN
MOROLES’ “GRANITE
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“STRATA” REPRESENTS
THE MOUNTAINS
GEOLOGICAL
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The serenity of Vail’s Ford Park serves as the new home for the timeless sculptural art installation “Granite Landscape” by internationally renowned artist Jesús Moroles. With the Gore Creek and Vail Mountain as a backdrop, there is a harmonious connection between the sculptural elements and the nature it represents. The relation between the art and earth is achieved.
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A ‘Granite Landscape’ continued ...
LEFTTHE CREW FROM ICON, INC. OF AVON PREPARE THE BASE FOR THE AMPHITHEATER-LIKE SETTING OF THE INSTALLATION.
RIGHTJESÚS MOROLES CHISELS A PORTION OF “GRANITE LANDSCAPE” ON SITE IN FORD PARK DURING THE INSTALLATION IN FALL OF 2011.
represented with a highly polished arc that contrasts with the sculpture’s natural rocky texture on the opposite side. Finally, an interactive wedge-shaped bench portraying a fi sh is symbolic of Gore Creek, to which “Granite Landscape” is now adjacent.
By combining both the polished and coarse textures of granite, Moroles reveals the beauty of this robust material, from the pristine elegance represented in the “Gore Creek’s” highly polished fi nish to the rugged permanence in the more rough textures. With state of the art tools, and his bare hands, Moroles transformed what is nature’s hardest stone. Each mark is thoughtful and intentional.
The son of Mexican immigrants, Moroles was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950. He was enrolled in art classes as a young boy and received his fi rst commissions when he was 13 years old. After enlisting in the Air Force for four years of service, Moroles graduated from North Texas State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978. He apprenticed for a year with sculptor Luis Jimenez, and the following year he worked in Carrara, Italy. In 1981, Moroles opened his studio in Rockport, Texas, where
he presently resides. The massive working studio encompasses three city blocks of this Gulf Coast town and is truly a family-run operation.
Over the course of Moroles’ career, his achievements have steadily grown, and he’s garnered major recognition for his work. In 2008 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him the National Medal of Arts Award, which was presented by President George W. Bush. This is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. He now joins the ranks of Georgia O’Keefe, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Andrew Wyeth, to mention only a few of the other visual artists who have received this honor. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Texas State 3D Artist of the Year.
His work is included in many major private, corporate, public and museum collections throughout the world. More than 300 of his pieces have been celebrated worldwide in museum and gallery exhibitions and 2,000 are in collections throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Mexico and North America. Moroles recently completed his largest granite plaza to date in China, at the Shanghai Zizhu Science-based Industrial Park.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W.
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THE HIGHLY POLISHED
SURFACE OF “THE FANG”
SYMBOLIZES THE EAST
VAIL WATERFALL THAT
TRANSFORMS INTO A
POPULAR ICE CLIMBING
DESTINATION DURING THE
WINTER MONTHS
THE TOWN OF VAIL’S
PUBLIC ART COLLECTION
INCLUDES 40 WORKS
RANGING FROM PAINTINGS
AND SCULPTURES TO
MURALS, PLAYGROUND
COMPONENTS AND
SITE-INTEGRATED ART.
THE COLLECTION MAY
BE VIEWED ON AN
INTERACTIVE MAP AT
ARTINVAIL.COM.
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ARTifacts
Compiled by Lauren Merrill, Alpine Arts Center | alpineartscenter.org
AMERICAN
CHILDREN
SPEND, ON
AVERAGE,
28 MINUTES
PER DAY
COLORING.
Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
The term collage is derived from the French word
meaning paste up.
DEPENDING ON THICKNESS AND CLIMATE, OIL PAINTINGS
CAN TAKE SIX MONTHS TO
TWO YEARS TO FULLY DRY.
THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A CAVE PAINTING WAS DISCOVERED IN SPAIN IN 1879.
Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years
painting Mona Lisa’s lips.
“I dream my painting and then paint my dream.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”— Pablo Picasso
The term “cartoon”
originated in the
Middle Ages and
fi rst described a
preparatory drawing
for a piece of art,
such as a painting.
Impressionism
was given its
name from one of
Monet’s pictures,
“Impression:
Sunrise.”
The potter’s wheel was invented in Mesopotamia sometime between
4000 and 6000 BCE and revolutionized pottery production.
THE FIRST PENCIL WAS INVENTED IN ENGLAND IN
1565.
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MOVIES DINING COCKTAILS RESERVEDSEATING
In-Theatre Dining, Cozy Bar And Lounge In The Heart Of Vail Village
All Ages Welcome
THE PERFECT PLACE FOR PRIVATE EVENTS | Call or email for more information: [email protected]
CINÉBISTRO AT SOLARIS – VAIL VILLAGE | 141 East Meadow Drive | 970.476.3344 | CobbCineBistro.com
PREPARE TO BE PAMPERED!Enjoy the convenience of reserved seating, where seat choices are made online or at the time of purchase at our Concierge Desk. The pampering experience continues with oversized, soft leather seating, full-service, in-theater dining and state-of-the-art all digital projection for world-class movie viewing.
Our friendly staff provides full food and beverage service directly to guests at their seats. CinéBistro offers an extensive wine list (most available by the glass) as well as classic and signature cocktails. Enjoy American Bistro cuisine, prepared by Executive Chef David Kempner and his culinary staff.
To enjoy service inside the auditoriums, please arrive 30 minutes before showtime. For information or to purchase tickets, go to www.CobbCinebistro.com.
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