Hello,
The whole town of Nederland will be alive with activities, contests, a parade, races, etc this weekend of March 5th, 6th and 7th for the Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival.
We will have expanded hours on Saturday from 9am-?
Please stop in and check out the new art by 12 different local artists.
Have a great weekend 
A Celebration featuring the art of Deborah Uhl
Reception, refreshments & music:
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 from 4pm-8pm.
The Artist’s Niche on the traffic circle in Nederland Colorado
(303)258-0549
A R T I S T’ S S T A T E M E N T
If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest know
Where you are.
You must let it find you.
“Higher” -David Waggonner
I exclaim
As I reach tree line
where earth meets sky.
The wind blows strongly
Unobstructed
Except for the bristlecone pines,
the highest and longest living things on earth.
Their roots reaching back thousands of years
Back when the Pyramids and Stonehenge
came into being.
2600 BC
Their branches spiral upward balancing
in the ever changing wind
I breathe it all in.
Looking out on this majestic vista,
The real becomes Surreal.
The Surreal, Ethereal.
I sense the Solidity
And the Fluidity.
Nothing remains the same.
The winds bring change.
I immortalize this moment
This Now in paint.
Holding steadfast to the truth
Honestly
I open my heart
And listen to the trees
Painting
To Feed hungry souls.
Stand still. Listen.
http://www.deborahuhl.com
The Artist’s Niche Presents:
A Final Friday Celebration featuring the art of Nicole Morrish
Reception, refreshments & music:
Friday, September 25th, 2009 from 4pm-8pm.
The Artist’s Niche on the traffic circle in Nederland Colorado
(303)258-0549
The Artist’s Niche Presents:
A Final Friday Celebration featuring the art of Vav
Reception, refreshments & music:
Friday, August 28th, 2009 from 4pm-8pm.
The Artist’s Niche on the traffic circle in Nederland Colorado
(303)258-0549
Vav Vavrek was born in Wilkes Barre, PA and grew up in the shadows of the rusting smokestacks of Pittsburgh. a slight brain malfunction caused him to ride screaming into the wind on faded steel horse until he lost his voice in Phoenix, AZ. He is currently creating works from nothing, or at least the remnants of nothing. His most recent works delve into the grimy recesses of life through explorations of addiction, mental illness, poverty, gender roles, and politics. Vav works with the blending of media including oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, enamel, marker and highlighter, graphite, pastels, conté crayons, video, and alternate photographic processes.
The Artist’s Niche: A Co-Op Marketplace for Mountain Artists featuring fine art & craft, photography, jewelry, sculpture, clothing and more.
Imposing Views - Camera Obscura Installation
All cameras - film, digital, even the human eye - work the same way.
A hole or aperture in a light-tight box allows light reflected off a subject outside the box to enter , producing an image of the subject inside the box.
Because rays of light travel in a relatively straight line, the light that enters from the top of the scene travels to the bottom of the box. The image that appears in the box is inverted, and the projected scene appears upside down and backwards. In conventional cameras, there is a charge coupled device or media such as film to “store” the image. The inversion is corrected for by our brains, by printing the film negative, or by computer algorithms.
The series Imposing Views is a growing collection of images from camera obscura installations that takes advantage of the qualities of the camera obscura to combine interior and exterior views and explore the inextricable link between the spaces we inhabit and the surrounding environment, as well the relationships between architecture, landscape, and the human body.
Colour Pinhole Photographs
All photographs are digital prints from 35mm color film, taken with multiple-aperture pinhole cameras.
In Nederland Colorado there is a monument to Sacajeweya and the spirit of peace and community the First Nations people of the area offered early explorers.
The monument consists of a bronze statue in a little garden just off the highway, and a bird bath with a stone in it. Perhaps due to some kind of ore in the rock, when the bird bath contains rainwater the pool is the deep red colour of old blood. It is a stone’s throw from the mining museum which features some of the first technology used to reshape the landscape through the exploitation of natural resources.
Short Bio
Maggie Ross is a Manitoba-raised photographer working primarily in the media of pinhole photography and camera obscura installations exploring the notions of urbanization, class, consumer culture, and our changing landscape. By using handmade multiple-aperture cameras, she combines images in a way that edit out the geographical and temporal space that separates the subjects, and allows them to be considered in new contexts, thus subverting the traditional notion of the objectivity of both the camera and the photographer.
Maggie has taught classes and workshops in alternative photography at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, and received her Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2008. She is photographing in the United States and Canada, and is part of the Manitoban film based photographic exhibition Positive/Negative, currently on display in Winnipeg, Canada.
