In Motion
In Motion brings together the work of 13 local and regional artists who explore movement as a constant condition of life. Through abstract and figurative forms, shifting light, evolving landscapes, bodies in transition, and emotional or natural processes, the exhibition reflects how change, adaptation, and transformation shape our lived experience. Some works express motion through stillness, others through rhythm, gesture, or flow, reminding us that nothing is ever truly static. In Motion celebrates creativity as an ongoing state of becoming—where art, like life itself, is always responding, evolving, and in motion.
Susan B. McCormick
Susan was born in Connecticut and raised in the Midwest, spending many summers in Colorado where her family has deep roots. She lived and worked in Telluride for 38 years, contributing to the community across multiple fields and remaining actively involved in the local arts, including exhibitions and service on the Arts Council Board. She now lives and paints in Montrose, maintaining a close connection to the San Juan Mountains and the Telluride landscape.
Susan paints for the love of color, exploring landscapes, florals, and abstracts inspired by winter light and the natural rhythms of the region. A longtime Telluride resident and avid high-altitude gardener, she spent many winters painting and imagining the life unfolding beneath the snow. Drawing from photographs taken while hiking near Telluride, her work reflects a deep connection to the valley, its shadows, and its seasonal transformation. She now paints from her Montrose studio, maintaining a lasting bond with the San Juan Mountains.
Lulu Priddy
Lulu Priddy is a visual artist and educator living in Telluride, Colorado. Their mixed media work places fantastical creatures and bone-like figures in abstract dreams. Lulu explores the relationship between the skeleton and gender, playing with our conceptions of the male and female figure. Lulu’s work features watercolor, colored pencil, ink, embossed metal, embroidery, collage, and ceramic.
https://www.instagram.com/lupriddyart/
Celeste Bickford
Celeste is a local southwest Colorado painter. She has become known for creating landscapes with radiant colors and bold shadows. Her paintings balance an impressionist sensibility for color with fidelity to the characteristics that make a landscape recognizable. Celeste’s landscapes are meant to feel familiar yet playful, and hint at the joy of connecting with a landscape in a personal way.
celestebickford.com | ig: https://www.instagram.com/celestebickford/
Brittany Miller
Brittany Miller has been settling into her new home and custom art frame shop/art studio in Ridgway after residing in Telluride for over 25 years. Miller consistently explores various creative outlets which ranges from drawings, paintings, mixed media to small-scale installations. Miller’s work always has a twist with metaphor and symbolism of the human condition and spirit. Ultimately, Miller hopes her art sparks the viewers curiosity of self and the grander world.
@fineartandframingff • Brittanymiller.net
Evan Tueller
Evan Tueller is a Telluride local artist, who grew up taking classes at Ah Haa School for the Arts and mentoring with local creative powerhouses such as Rosemerry Trommer, Kathy Green, Sue Hobby, Bruce Gomez, and Robert Weatherford. Evan works primarily with drawing and mixed media in two dimensional formats, however she also is a performance artist and has co-produced immersive art installations in Boulder, CO and Washington, DC. Her artistic style ranges from mountainous pastel landscapes to magical realist figural ink drawings, pulling inspiration from her art history and studio training as well as her travels around the world. Evan is academically published for her Humanities and Art History studies on monster theory and dragon symbology. She is an avid fantasy and science fiction reader in her free time, which is reflected in the storytelling and magical nostalgia within her artworks.
evantueller.com | @monstrouscuriosity
Nancy B. Frank
Photographer and painter, Nancy B Frank is a former Wisconsite with substantial training: BFA/MFA, art-fellowships including the MacDowell Colony, a year's study in Rome, Italy and 5 years as Adjunct Instructor teaching serigraphy at NYU. She has worked successfully in mediums as varied as painted wooden jewelry, sculptured cakes, painted furniture, "faux" decorative painting and photography, while consistently working as a fine art painter.
About her paintings:
1. SILVER
Silver is a Kiger Mustang that came to me when he was 13 years old through an animal rescue.
There are two herds of Kiger Mustangs in the isolated Steen Mountains of Oregon. They can be traced to the original Spanish Conquistador horses and are thus highly protected. They are usually buckskin color, often with zebra stripes on their legs, but Silver is “white”, or a gray horse (with dark black skin). As isolated at the Steen mountains were, it seems a big grey draft horse stallion appeared in the herd. Thus Silver could be considered a half-draft horse.
2. 3 DAY EVENTOR
This horse was participating at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY. 3 Day Eventing is a primo horse competition which tests a horse’s endurance and
flexibility. The first day is a dressage test, which tests a highly conditioned horse to
comply with submission and relaxation in a certain pattern within an arena space.
The second day is the cross county event when horses gallop through a timed jump
course, through water obstacles and jumps that are stationary so do not “give” if a
horse doesn’t make it over the jump. Arena jumping is on the third day, when the
horses are tired,, jump through a pattern of within a limited time.
3. SOREN
Soren is a Warmblood stallion owned by a trainer with whom I’ve worked, She is
training Soren using long lines, essentially driving him from behind.
4. THE THINKER (WPL)
This is a painting of a Lusitano stallion from Golegã, a charming town in the center of
Portugal famous for its annual horse fair. All the top breeders attend this important event, the origins of which date back to the 18th century, with many of Portugal’s most refined breeds (such as the Lusitano, Sorraia, Alter Real, Garrano and Terceira) competing. 100 stallions and riders are paraded around the ring in their traditional finery, performing piaffes and passage and pirouettes. I was drawn to this horse because of his kind eye.
www.nancybfrank.com | https://www.instagram.com/nancybfrank/
Jean Vertefeuille-Cutler
As a lifelong naturalist and artist I use my creative process to bring both expansive and small nuances to the attention of viewers in a new way. I mostly work in oils, but also watercolors, pen and ink and charcoal.
Nicole Greenfield
Nicole Greenfield is a painter based in Ridgway, Colorado. Working primarily in oil, she creates expressive portraits and atmospheric landscapes that explore the intimacy found in observing people and the natural world. Nicole is a self-taught artist, developing her skills through years of dedicated practice and online learning. As her craft has evolved, so has her confidence and commitment to pursuing a career in art. She is now focused on sharing her work and process more widely and continuing to grow as a painter.
I wanted to explore the grieving process. Eyes, hands, temperature, and contrast were some of the tools used to convey each stage and the emotions one experiences going through them. Grief is painful, but through its process we can explore what we miss, why we miss it, and how to move forward without it.
Denial: When I was young my family would watch scary movies together and I was told to cover my eyes for the scary parts. The image of peeking through fingers to see horrors I wasn’t ready to witness appeared while painting this. How long can we observe something while denying what we see?
Anger: By far the ugliest of the five emotions: anger. I went back and forth on the tears but ultimately placed them in. This is the hottest of the five and the one with the most contrast. Anger is a volatile, motivating emotion that surprises us in how it presents.
Bargaining: Grief isn’t always a death. It can be the end of a relationship, life chapter, or dream. In many cases bargaining can look like a fawn response. Wanting to appear more appealing to bring something lost back. In the process we sometimes offer pieces of ourselves, ultimately adding to our loss.
Depression: Depression is hard to describe because it’s often an absence of emotion. Apathy, disconnection, and a dulling of your inner world are things that come to mind when I think of this stage. The suspended woman was improvised and one of my favorite details in the series.
Acceptance: While grief is one of the hardest things to overcome, it can be a source of tremendous growth. Allowing yourself to feel all these emotions can make you stronger. I chose a soft smile in the eyes because acceptance doesn’t mean you’re completely healed. To me, it means opening up your world to something other than your loss. You can see a stream of light, and hopefully you can get the chance to feel its warmth in the future.
Andrew Dines
My work plays with the contradictions of modern life. Clashing or mismatched painterly approaches challenge the expected intepretations and allow something new to emerge.
andrewdines.com | https://www.instagram.com/andrewdines/ | https://www.instagram.com/littletelluridegallery/
Ingrid Oliphant
I am a savant artist; one day I could not paint, the next day painting became a third lung, a necessity for proper breathing. I work primarily with acrylics on canvas to share what I call Conversations with Creation. Invariably, the result of these conversations lead to physical, emotional healing as well as spiritual revelation for viewers, especially those that are sensitive to energy.
Brooke Einbender
Brooke Einbender, known as Mindbender, is gaining recognition as a visionary voice in immersive art, bending the minds of her audience through transformative installations that serve as kaleidoscopic portals into otherworldly dimensions. Her multidisciplinary work explores the intersection of art, nature, and technology through large-scale public installations.
Her work centers on portals—sculptural thresholds that invite viewers to step beyond the familiar and experience new states of perception. Einbender fuses creativity and innovation to transform public space into sensory-rich environments.
Www.mindbender-art.com | https://www.instagram.com/mindbender.art/
Amy Levek
Amy Levek sees the world as a place full of intrigue and constant fascination. The view through her camera offers a glimpse of the intimate relationship she shares with her surroundings. She always has her camera with her to capture how light brings life to the world.
