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100 privately owned C.P. Adams paintings were made publicly accessible for the first time ever with the support of Wells Fargo, The Bacon Family Foundation, Raymond H. Riley Assoc., Inc., Home Loan Investment Co., Enstrom’s Candies, US Bank and others.
This collection of stunning historical paintings by Charles Partridge Adams was on view at The Art Center from September 1 through November 5, 2005.
Masterpieces of Colorado:
A Rich Legacy of Landscape Painting
July 28 - September 23, 2007
lTom Stubbs was a local artist who had achieved a national reputation before his untimely death in December 2000. A landscape artist, Stubbs painted and studied on location learning from nature and living his art. This exhibit featured works that remained with the family. Some were shown in public for the first time.
Tom Stubbs Retrospective
August 3 - September 29, 2007
This major landscape exhibition showcased over 60 works by artists from the late 19th century to the present.
There was a wonderful mix of both prominent 19th century and contemporary Colorado landscape artists. Generous collectors and artists opened their doors and allowed precious works to travel throughout the state. Many of the paintings of late 19th century artists had never been in shows outside of these collections, and therefore, never before accessible to the public. Styles and impressions of Colorado's landscape range from the romanticized early works of Thomas Moran, Helen Henderson Chain and Joseph Hitchins to the more modern views of Ernest Lawson, Charles Bunnell and Vance Kirkland. The same is true of the contemporary artists whose works range from those of Clyde Aspevig and Gordon Brown, Charles Forsman and Ned Jacob.
This exhibit was sponsored statewide by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Colorado Council on the Arts. Local sponsors A.G. Edwards Sewell/Arledge Group, Halliburton, and Williams made the exhibit’s Grand Junction stop possible.
Left: The Art Center's first building (1970)
Above: The Art Center offered its first children's art classes on Saturday at Tope Elementary in the early 1950s.
This photo is a 1957 class.
Al Nestler
One of 19 founders
and an artist in The Art Center's Permanent Collection
The Art Center's
55th Anniversary Celebration
September 5th -- November 15th
Underwritten by Shear Inc. & Chuck and Patti Shear
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Jac Kephart Retrospective
Fifty Years in the Making
September 7 - November 10
Local artist Jac Kephart has shown in numerous galleries including those in Santa Fe, NM; Sedona, AZ; Breckenridge, CO as well as the West Coast. Although Kephart has a national reputation, The Art Center is the home of his first comprehensive retrospective.
The work is bold and exciting. Using his previous landscapes and the deserts and canyons of the Colorado Rockies as a starting point, Kephart creates compositions that have a grand scale and geological depth that resolve the luminous textures of their surfaces. His use of different materials gives his abstractions a sculptural feel.
The Legacy of
Mauricio Lasansky
November 30, 2007 -- January 19, 2008
Amalfi Moment
Jack Orman
artists represented:
Mauricio Lasansky, Jack Orman, Charles Hardy,Gerry Wubben, Douglas DeVinny, Joshua Butler, Jennifer Bauer, James Ehers, Charlie Huang,Greg Porcaro, and
Camille Silverman
Master Printmakers highlighted the processes of intaglio prints. The intaglio print has certain qualities that other mediums do not. The deep rich blacks of the inks, the precise marks made by engraving, and the use of acids as an etching device make the intaglio print different from all other mediums. In the intaglio process, an artist will work metal plates with burins, scribs and acids. Each print must come from a plate that is freshly wiped and inked before it is run through the press. These prints differ from the mass produced prints that we are familiar with today for they are generally very labor intensive and in extremely limited edition. Intaglio has been practiced throughout art history by artists such as; Whistler, Rembrandt and Durer. The mechanics of this process has stayed the same for centuries.
If Not Here, There
Charles Hardy
The long awaited 2nd Biennial Contemporary Clay 2008 Exhibit opened with the First Friday reception on May 2nd and runs through June 28th. This national juried/invitational exhibit will feature works in clay spanning a wide spectrum of expression, ceramic firing process, and forming techniques.
This year’s jurors were Tom and Elaine Coleman of Henderson, Nevada. With over 40 years of studio ceramic experience, these two highly acclaimed artists had the challenging task of selecting work from submitting artists from all over the U.S. as well as inviting 10 artists to also show. With a discerning eye, they have put together a very engaging exhibit with clay work rarely seen in Grand Junction. The Colemans had pieces in the first 2006 Contemporary Clay Exhibit as invited artists and will show a few of their impeccable porcelain pieces this year.
Out of 81 submitting artists and 225 pieces entered, the jurors selected 48 artists to show 62 pieces. In addition, the 10 invited artists have 25 to 30 pieces representing their work. All told Contemporary Clay 2008 is a feast for the eyes with over 90 examples of diverse clay art on display. This second biennial clay exhibit, now nationally known, speaks to the high caliber and expressive efforts of serious devotees of clay work.
In total, work by artists from 18 states is represented. Western Slope Colorado artists are well represented including Grand Valley artists Tim Wedel, Joanie Post, Harold Snider, Norm Olson, Elizabeth Lynch, and Sara Ransford. Works by the ten invited artists, while never seen in Grand Junction before, represent a national cross section of clay artists. Most of the artists have achieved national and international recognition for their careers in clay and include Linda Arbuckle (Florida), Susan Filley (North Carolina), Chris Gustin (Massachusetts), John Hopkins (California), Pat Horsley (Oregon), Matt Long (Mississippi), Frank Masseralla (California), Seth Rainville (Arizona), Ellen Shankin (Virginia), and Al Tennant (Washington).
John Hopkins
Grand Terrace, CA
Elaine Coleman, Judge
Henderson, NV
Wells Fargo presents
11th Annual Contemporary Exhibit: Contemporary Clay 2008
A National Juried and Invitational Ceramic Exhibit
With
Judges Tom & Elaine Coleman
May 2 – June 28, 2008
Generously Underwritten by:
