Tag Archives: Chris Dahlquist

Tears of Joy


 

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”  -Hosea Ballou

Mile Marker 577v, size 16″x 22″


 

Learn From The Natural World


Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”  – John Lubbock

Mile Marker 675, size 16″x 22″


 

This Is Not a Photo


Every other year Denver is home to the Month of Photography, and this year I’m participating!

This Is Not a Photo

April 6 – May 4, 2019

Reception: Saturday April 6, 2019 6-8 pm

Curtis Center for the Arts
2349 E Orchard Rd
Greenwood Village, CO 80121

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Proceeding Inward


Proceeding Inward

March 4 – April 6, 2019

Sam Hall of Fine Arts
Kansas Wesleyan University
100 E Claflin Ave
Salina, KS 67401


A while back I was contacted by Kansas Wesleyan University about mounting a show in their gallery. Fast forward to the beginning of March, and Kyle and I (with help from our friend Chris Chapin) hung 28 pieces in The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts, in an exhibit titled Proceeding Inward.

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Imagine

I was lucky to spend last week in New Orleans dreaming about “What’s Next” with a talented group of fellow artists. My cup is full and I am excited about what is on the horizon. What have you imagined for 2019?

Everything you can imagine is real.”  -Pablo Picasso

Mile Marker 441, size 22″x 34″

Luxury in Simplicity


The days of living in the camper and cooking over the fire, an afternoon in a hammock with a book or on the sofa listening to the cat snore…the spareness of the horizon line…

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity”  -Jil Sander

Mile Marker 545, size 16 x 22″


 

Midway Across Missouri

My Ghost Notes series of images are still housed with my long time partner the Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, MO. I couldn’t think of a more appropriate place than right in the middle of the state to debut some of the new images in the series, ones that were added to the collection as I paddled my kayak across Missouri.  Continue reading »

Taken Away At Dusk


“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Mile Marker 569, size 22″x 34″


 

Art is a Living River


“Art is a living river that runs through our time and will run on as long as art is created and appreciated. To purchase [an artist’s work] is to take a dipper full of the river home to constantly be refreshed with the energy of life.”  -Stewart Turcotte

Mile Marker 604, sized 22″x 34″


 

The Edges of TIme


“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
-Rabindranath Tagore

Mile Marker 496, size 31″x 51″