Twenty-two new sculptures went up for the exhibit’s fortieth year, juried by George Turner, one of the founding sculptors, and Justin Squier. Three of them are Colorado Mesa University student pieces. All of them are for sale.
The catalogue below carries 14 of those 22. The rest are named on the Creative District’s page but their details load behind a slider that the archived capture did not reach, and a record with a guessed price or a guessed corner is worse than a gap.
As One by Jerry Severns, at 559 Main Street. Fat Cat Pottery is the storefront across the street at 552, and it is in the directory.
In walking order, south to north, by the number each one stands at.
225Main Street
Kou-Prey
Vanny Channal of Brighton, CO
1st Place Best in Show
Dave Davis Award
People’s Choice Award
This is the ”Kouprey”, translating that from the Khmer Language (the native language of Cambodia), it means ”Wild Ox”. The Kouprey is a forest dwelling bovine species that was only found in South East Asia. The last time a Kouprey was recorded to be seen was in 1981 in Cambodia. In the 1960’s, the Prince of Cambodia at the time (Norodom Sihanouk), declared this Kouprey to be the national animal of Cambodia. So, this…
Bulrush was created from recycled steel. It is my personal interpretation of an urban wetland. Cattails are nature’s regenerators. They colonize disturbed wetlands, extracting pollutants and support ecosystems to a healthy state. I like the idea of nature and downtown colliding!
This piece is inspired by a popular Moab petroglyph. Two dancers are dancing back to back with large earrings and bodies angled to show motion. They have different jewelry but both have one hand up and one hand down as they are dancing away. Figures dancing back to back at a party in the desert! A second in a series exploring movement with dancing. rockcarvingmel.net
Over the past several years, I have been interested in creating public sculptures that show different images or words depending on the direction they’re seen. I believe that having two ideas coexist in a single piece is a useful metaphor for the ecosystem of ideas that public art empowers and protects. I particularly like taking two ideas that I previously thought were mutually exclusive, yet in fact may not be. In…
It is a sacred moment when we get a vision for how to make something more of our lives or a situation. We might be generous, we might serve, we might pray for strength, or we might become all we were meant to be when we cultivate the part of us that dreams and casts a vision. gwendolynhill.net
I capture the fragility and intricacies that are overlooked in nature. In both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. I take a naturalistic approach to prioritize organic form in flora and fauna. To survive in our world, trees will ground themselves to cliffsides by latching their root systems into minute cracks. Mushrooms will feed off of decay for nutrients. Octopi have evolved to blend into their…
Three figures are formed from a single, continuous, closed loop. These figures depend on each other to remain upright. On their surface all the colors reflected in a prism appear, move and disappear. All colors are possible at every point. All from one. I explore movement and interaction with my sculpture. Everything in our existence has been created by movement of something and interaction with something else. In…
My sculpture represents a horse drinking water. I was inspired by studying the arch in a horse’s neck as he eats all day. It came to me that the horse drinks water everyday as well, and probably has become aware of the reflection of itself. It makes you wonder, if the horse checks in to see how it is doing each day. I used recycled steel pieces to create this life and a half sized horse head. Many of the parts are…
Dropsy is a bronze and stainless steel contemporary abstract sculpture. The sculpture was inspired by the medical condition where fluid fills the space between cells in the body causing swelling. The mirror polished stainless orb represents the fluid and the massive slabs represent the cell walls. The orb is tilted and the slabs are curved giving the impression that the orb is applying pressure to the slabs…
This artwork was crafted after letting go of what I perceived my art to be. I had to relax and let my hands play and place my forms. What came out of that was a manifestation of what home has meant to me over my life. At the bottom is home for me now: solid, four walls with windows to look out of. Just above it, my home when I lived with my grandfather. A solid plane, but whimsical and starting to feel less real…
In the life cycle of plants, seeds play a vital role as the new plant begins. If the seed is viable, if it is good and is exposed to a favorable environment, it germinates, sprouting into existence. For life to spring forth from an outwardly looking hard, dried, dead-looking object is virtually incomprehensible, almost like magic. Germination – A Good Seed is set in a ”slice” of textured earth. First comes a root…
Same exhibit, same jury, one street south of the walk.
437Colorado Avenue
Hip Bone
Joe Norman of Loveland, CO
Several years ago I was thirsty, sunburned, and lost in San Juans of southern Colorado. This sculpture is inspired by an elk hip bone I found while sitting on a rock, thinking about the thin veil between myself and the scattered leftovers of this animal spread around me. To build it, I used metal shaping techniques borrowed from the custom motorcycle fabrication world, and sanded the paint to accentuate the various…
For sale$16,500
524Colorado Avenue
Could Have Been
Madeline Chandler of Grand Junction, CO
Could Have Been was inspired by the thought that nothing really lasts forever. While this sculpture was in progress, I saw the end of a relationship with someone who, for a minute, really seemed like they would always stay. It’s a familiar storyline for so many of us, and one I felt could be turned into beautiful abstraction. This sculpture holds two figures that could fit perfectly together, but don’t. Each side of…
For sale$3,000
Where this comes from: the Creative District’s own Art on the Corner catalogue on gjcreates.org, and its photographs, taken by Sarah Dishong and published there. Prices, awards and the roster describe the captured exhibit rather than whatever is standing outside this week. All sources
