Featured Artists January 2023

After working with many mediums over the years, Durango artist Chris Vicari discovered fluid art and never looked back. Her pieces use color, depth, and shape to invite the viewer to lose themselves for a few moments in the lines and patterns. Using vibrantly pigmented acrylic paints, Chris creates pieces that flow across the canvas. To lend a touch of realism, she adds paint-sculpted flowers and vines by hand that delicately accent the curves of the paint. Her hand-built oak frames are designed individually for each piece.

This show features pieces that were inspired by the both the natural world around us and the universe that extends beyond what our eyes can see. You will see the colors of a sunset in one piece, then the colors of a faraway galaxy in the next. Take your time and enjoy the show, Dimensions of Dreamscapes.

Lauren Czaplicki works in watercolors to convey the balance of chaotic permanence once the medium dries, it's quite hard to change it- and impermanence- the water dries quickly leaving only gorgeous traces. Through this medium she creates metaphors for life: chaotic, transient, beautiful. Her Internal Landscape works explore the ways that our internal landscapes, our emotional mountain peaks and valleys, are beautiful and deserving of curiosity. We look around us and can clearly see the beauty in nature’s landscapes, but when it comes to our own internal peaks and valleys, we wish they’d be different. What could we do with the energy we spend criticizing our internal landscapes? The installation encourages us to see the beauty within ourselves and within the animals around us.

First Friday

A portion of proceeds from purchased this show will benefit La Plata Family Centers.

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Musician

Michael McGuffey