May Newsletter

ARTS AND RECREATION
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CURTIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 2349 EAST ORCHARD ROAD, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80121 • 303-797-1779
THE CURTIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
TO HOST EXHIBIT FROM FORMER
GREENWOOD VILLAGE RESIDENT
AND WORLD-RENOWNED ARTIST
JOELLYN DUESBERRY
WHEN: MAY 12-JUNE 30
RECEPTION: SATURDAY, MAY 12, 6-8 P.M.
CURATOR’S TALK: SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1 P.M.
WHERE: CURTIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Nationally recognized for her dynamic landscape paintings,
Joellyn Duesberry’s canvases are remarkable with rich and
intense use of color and distinct balance of geometric surface
and depth of various cityscapes and landscapes around the
world. Her use of light, shadow, scale and texture culminates
in paintings that are both visually and emotionally arresting.
Duesberry passed after a battle with pancreatic cancer in
August 2016.
A self-taught oil painter, Duesberry’s long and distinguished
career took her around the world while establishing herself as
a regionalist. Although the Duesberry studio is located in
Greenwood Village, she painted plein-air around the world
for 40 plus years. Exhibited in this show are both well-known
landscapes and rarely seen works that reveal the subjects that
continually inspired Duesberry to revisit them on the canvas
and in person. Her plein-air locales focused on the northeast
and western United
States, while utilizing
the winter months to
create monotypes to
experiment with
abstraction.
An Exploration in Medium examines Duesberry’s prolific
output from the mid-1970s to 2015, including paintings,
monotypes and drawings. Exploring the planes of rural
architecture, exotic land, rock, and water forms for the pull
of unfamiliar geometries, it became obvious that her
consistent choices of color and structure was a response to
the world that came from deepest memory. Southwestern
desert tans and reds (like Virginia hills) made her at ease with
Tuscan, Californian or Spanish bright light, and its sculptural
definition of forms; ancient hill towns of Europe presented
aspects of the same architectonics, hand-forged irregularities,
and the Virginia farmlands and its roofed structures from
where she grew up.
“The act of landscape painting is my most natural,
challenging, and joyful experience in life. My often-quirky
interpretation of Colorado vistas, corners, and waters show
the magical energy of the land. The power I sense in wild
places, imparts to this artist a vibrating energy and strength,
which I must somehow express in every light, mood, odd
angle and scale of vision.” — Joellyn T. Duesberry
Duesberry’s artwork has been acquired
by over 90 public collections both
nationally and internationally. Available
is her 50-year retrospective book titled
“Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of
Joellyn Duesberry,” and “Dialogue with
the Artist,” a 32-minute PBS
documentary film on her process of
painting and monotypes.
This exhibit is curated by Brenda LaBier,
Director of Estate and Gift Planning of
the Joellyn Duesberry Collection. GV
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