2011-2012 NCAR Community Art Program Calendar
June 1, 2011 to July 31, 2011
 Gallery IRichard Greening recently began incorporating a new aspect in his photography using a fisheye lens to present a different interpretation of everyday objects and scenes. A fisheye lens is an ultra wide angle lens that captures panoramic images causing them to appear spherical. |
 Gallery IIKevin Singleton's exhibition of oil paintings on canvas captures the endless inspiration she receives to paint people of great character and scenes from the beautiful environment surrounding her. To the artist, creating artwork is a way of life that brings her enjoyment. |
August 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011
 Gallery IDan Baumbach has been in love with photography since his teens when he began taking candid photos of people on the crowded streets of New York. Today his photography more often captures the amazing landscapes here and elsewhere that surround us. He believes that at our core, we are peace and love, and that art can help point us to that realization. |
 Gallery IIA prolific artist, Lael Har works in vivid acrylic color in a contemporary impressionistic style. Her work is painterly, juicy, and expressive. Lael is inspired by natural beauty and is influenced by her spiritual upbringing, and her travels to Europe, Israel, India, and South America. Says Har, "I am moved by the exploration of beauty: color and light; movement and silence; the tensions of opposites that create harmony." |
October 1, 2011 to November 30, 2011
 Gallery INancy Myer bought her first serious 35mm camera in 1976 as a means to capture and share the beauty she saw around her. 35 years later and with decades of workshops, training, awards, and experience behind her, she finds her favorite photographic subject remains the beauty around us all, but most notably the beauty of flowers, landscapes, animals, and abstracts. She has begun to experiment with a variety of digital manipulation techniques to give her work a fresh perspective. |
 Gallery IIWith over 25 years of experience as a fine artist, Kit Hevron Mahoney has been showing in galleries nationwide. Her work has received numerous awards and is found in both corporate and private collections. She is passionate about travel and painting landscapes and florals that represent the places she has been. Says Mahoney, "My paintings are a response to the passion and beauty I feel from and for Nature. As an artist I want to communicate visually and vibrantly the peace and serenity that I find in Nature, which I see as a visual and spiritual wonderland. I use my brush and palette knife to translate nature onto the canvas. I describe my dynamic compositions as a unique style of contemporary Impressionism with a bold use of color and texture." |
December 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012
 Gallery IIArtist Erin King started Deadwilder Design & Illustration in 2007 after a long stint of hanging out in the natural history museum collection department. She has worked as a scientific illustrator, graphic designer, taxidermist, and a teaching assistant in the human anatomy lab at CU, but is now focused on working as an independent artist with a long term goal of illustrating a book on comparative primate anatomy. |
 Gallery IKen Schmeelk captures his artistic process best when he says, "For me, the process of image making in the photographic arts in from start to finish one of seeking and discovering a sense of 'rightness.' From moment to moment, finding the balance and harmony of light, color, and form may result in an image that is realistic, impressionistic, or abstract, but ultimately it is the dialogue and dance of the raw elements with the imaginative function that may reveal something that feels surprising yet true." |
February 1, 2012 to March 31, 2012
 Gallery IRemoved from context within the rest of the world, Aurelius Rune's photographic subjects are meditations unto themselves. The bridge goes to nowhere and the black thistles reach forever to the untouchable sun.
Most of what you see in Rune's exhibit are black and white prints stretched on canvas. Some of the photos have blue and yellow tones in them. All of the artworks are original prints with specific and intentional edits to show isolation. By removing certain elements from the background of these images, the artist presents the subject in a distilled and purified form. Each image exudes a meditative quality and imparts a sense of simplicity. |
 Gallery IIAshley Williams studied studio art and art history at the University of Virginia. After graduation, she received the Aunspaugh Fellowship to continue her work at UVA for one year. She is currently completing an MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in addition to teaching classes in painting and drawing. Icebergs contain iron-rich minerals. When the ice melts, these minerals are released, enriching the surrounding water and attracting phytoplankton, jellyfish, and krill, creating what Williams imagines to be an abundant garden. As the icebergs drift into warmer waters, they drag these transient ecosystems along with them. |
April 1, 2012 to May 31, 2012
 Gallery IJulia Lunk began exhibiting her work in 2004 most notably in Boulder, Lyons and Aspen. Her paintings and prints are softly colored, sometimes whimsically, often carrying themes encompassing children, animals, and childlike innocence. |
 Gallery IIJudith Trager is an artist, teacher, and curator known internationally for her quilt artistry. Her work has appeared in many major exhibitions including Quilt National, Art Quilts at the Sedgewick, Crafts National, The Quilted Surface, and the International Quilt Festival. Trager is also a popular workshop teacher and lecturer, and has curated several traveling art exhibitions. |
 Gallery IIChris Browns Photography has been a testament to the beauty of our Planet.Over the years Chris has been in hundreds of shows and has won numerousawards. Most recently he edited 30 years of Grand Canyon photography, thatwas published in the book, Path of Beauty. His prints are in many collections, public and private. |
