The Wages of Sin

    by Joanne Beaule Ruggles

 Joanne Beaule Ruggles

Eye, Hand, & Heart

August 6 - August 27

 Opening August 6, 7-9pm

The art of Joanne Beaule Ruggles concerns itself with the human condition. She employs her knowledge of human form and structure to construct a universal visual narrative. Employing a wide range of such body signals, Joanne is able to create a sense of theater as figures are pulled together into large-scale, complex and vibrant compositions that tell stories that span the centuries and cross cultural barriers. 

Joanne has received grants from the James Irvine Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, and the Capelli d’Angeli Foundation to support her artwork and creative projects. In 1998 Ruggles was selected for the US Department of State’s Arts in Embassies Program. Since joining this group, her paintings have been exhibited in two long-term loan installations at the US embassies in Sierra Leone and Angola.

Over her long career, Joanne’s artworks have been shown in hundreds of group and solo exhibitions in the USA and abroad. To see more of this artists work¸ please visit her website at http://beaulerugglesgraphics.com.  She will be giving a workshop in conjunction with her exhibit August 18 – August 27.

     Photo of Mike Mechau and Paula Mechau

      by Meredith W. Ogilby

“A Life Well-Rooted”

Meredith W. Ogilby

A Life Well-Rooted

 August 1– August 28

Opening reception August 6, 7-9 pm

Gallery talk 6:30 pm

Sponsored by The Art Center Guild

In Meredith's exhibit of photography, the outdoors and family seem to echo throughout many of the photographs taken of a close group of women from the Roaring Fork Valley.   The play between indoors and outdoors and the reflection of people loving their environment and community are

constant in the images.

“Meredith Ogilby’s photographs are worth a thousand words but the hard-earned lines etched in the faces of her subjects speak even greater volumes about Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.  Pride, humility, humor and strength emanate from the striking black and white portrait series of the area’s ‘pioneer women’.”  - Steve Lipsher, Denver Post 1999. 

Meredith Ogilby is a photographer and author of A Life Well-Rooted:  Women of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, which won the Caroline Bancroft Award for the advancement for Colorado History. 

Conduits

Sculpture by

Marcus Villagran

July 2 - August 28

Marcus Villagrán’s July exhibit Conduits, will feature a selection of 24ceramic sculptures. “I selected both figurative and abstract pieces because, throughout my career, both modes of expression have offered me constant challenges and opportunities for experimentation in materials and processes,’’ states Villagrán. “I’ve always had a love of the classical periods of art history, especially those of the Mediterranean areas, including the Moorish culture. Early on, I found that clay and glazes offered me ways to reinterpret the ideas that I admired.”

Installation of clay works by Marcus Javier Villagrán

At the Mesa County Library at 530 Grand Ave
 

Woven Heritage:

Discovering A Native People

 Navajo Rugs from The Art Center Permanent Collection

June 1 - August 31, 2010


 

  Still life with skull, oil on canvas

Curator's Choice Exhibit

Michael Goe

July 15 - September 21

Come and see the prints and paintings of Michael Goe.  This exhibit is just beyond the sliding glass doors off the Atrium Gallery located in the curators office.

"When I love an artist's work but cannot fit them into the exhibition schedule, I pop them into my office and wait for the perfect moment in time when I can give them a larger exhibit format.  Love this young man's work.  I hope that I get many office visits." 

Curator Camille Silverman

                                       Temptation, etching

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