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There are a lot of artists living in Snowmass Village and now due to the efforts of the Snowmass Arts Advisory Board, they will have a chance to display their creative works at a new venue within the town limits.
SAAB will have an opening reception for local artists entitled “Local Winter Color” at the renovated Welcome Center for Village Property Management on Friday, Dec. 11 from 5 - 7 p.m.
Formerly the community center for the Villas at the Snowmass Club, which is located across from the entrance to the club, the area was updated and had lots of wall space in a comfortable, homey ambience, which last year was covered by art works from Basalt artists.
Enter SAAB, which decided that this would be the perfect venue to display the talent of Village and other local artists. Heading the SAAB committee to make this dream a reality is Jan Grenda, along with Page Shuck and Linda Gerdenich.
Grenda is the curator for the exhibition and an artist in her own right, whose work is often on display at the Aspen Chapel Gallery. She will show a new botanical series, along with some of her paintings inspired by maps.
When it was decided to hold a show in the Welcome Center, Grenda put out a call for local artists to display their art, and after a slow start, she was inundated with interest. The exhibition will feature the work of nine local artists, some well-established and others up-and coming.
The paintings by Debra Rader will bring back happy memories of summer in Snowmass Village for local residents.
“I entered three horse paintings of the bucking horses for the rodeo that graze in the Horse Ranch meadow. I drive by them each day in the summer. They inspired me and I've met the owner. I like to paint what I'm surrounded with,” said Rader, a painter and ceramist who has shown her work at the Aspen Art Gallery, the Red Brick Center for the Arts and other venues in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Kat Parkin, who is a well-known art photographer in the Roaring Fork Valley, has entered images from her “Moon” series. Moon is a cherubic doll whose baby form appears in a variety of settings and has even made appearances at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada inspiring the “Playa” images that will grace the walls of the center.
Some of the artists will be well-known to local art lovers including pastel landscapes by David Notor of Carbondale, oil paintings by Mike Otte of Aspen and mixed media by Shannon Neumann of Woody Creek.
Two up-and-coming artists from Snowmass Village are landscape painter Kate Leibinger and Fred Dick. The latter was first inspired by digital art and has now taken up abstract oil painting.
Linda Rutland is a second homeowner here who also lives in Decatur, Ga., when not present at her mountain paradise. Her work includes still life and landscape oil paintings.
This inaugural event will be hosted by Village Property Management under the direction of Bill Woodin, who gets a lot of credit for facilitating the exhibition.
SAAB will have an opening reception for local artists entitled “Local Winter Color” at the renovated Welcome Center for Village Property Management on Friday, Dec. 11 from 5 - 7 p.m.
Formerly the community center for the Villas at the Snowmass Club, which is located across from the entrance to the club, the area was updated and had lots of wall space in a comfortable, homey ambience, which last year was covered by art works from Basalt artists.
Enter SAAB, which decided that this would be the perfect venue to display the talent of Village and other local artists. Heading the SAAB committee to make this dream a reality is Jan Grenda, along with Page Shuck and Linda Gerdenich.
Grenda is the curator for the exhibition and an artist in her own right, whose work is often on display at the Aspen Chapel Gallery. She will show a new botanical series, along with some of her paintings inspired by maps.
When it was decided to hold a show in the Welcome Center, Grenda put out a call for local artists to display their art, and after a slow start, she was inundated with interest. The exhibition will feature the work of nine local artists, some well-established and others up-and coming.
The paintings by Debra Rader will bring back happy memories of summer in Snowmass Village for local residents.
“I entered three horse paintings of the bucking horses for the rodeo that graze in the Horse Ranch meadow. I drive by them each day in the summer. They inspired me and I've met the owner. I like to paint what I'm surrounded with,” said Rader, a painter and ceramist who has shown her work at the Aspen Art Gallery, the Red Brick Center for the Arts and other venues in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Kat Parkin, who is a well-known art photographer in the Roaring Fork Valley, has entered images from her “Moon” series. Moon is a cherubic doll whose baby form appears in a variety of settings and has even made appearances at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada inspiring the “Playa” images that will grace the walls of the center.
Some of the artists will be well-known to local art lovers including pastel landscapes by David Notor of Carbondale, oil paintings by Mike Otte of Aspen and mixed media by Shannon Neumann of Woody Creek.
Two up-and-coming artists from Snowmass Village are landscape painter Kate Leibinger and Fred Dick. The latter was first inspired by digital art and has now taken up abstract oil painting.
Linda Rutland is a second homeowner here who also lives in Decatur, Ga., when not present at her mountain paradise. Her work includes still life and landscape oil paintings.
This inaugural event will be hosted by Village Property Management under the direction of Bill Woodin, who gets a lot of credit for facilitating the exhibition.
