Through the Lens: Photography Across Colorado

Now on view at the PACE Center Gallery, Through the Lens – Photography Across Colorado showcases the work of six talented Colorado photographers whose images capture the beauty, character, and spirit of our state.

Featuring photography by Stephen Hume, Evan Anderman, William Matthews, Susan Artaechevarria, Sherri Mabe, and Hollie Giannaula, the exhibition highlights a wide range of styles and subjects, from sweeping natural vistas and intimate environmental details to interesting moments of everyday life.

Join us for the free reception on July 23 at the PACE Center, where you can enjoy light refreshments while exploring this stunning display of work.

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Wintertide — Garden of the Gods, 6°F

At six degrees, Garden of the Gods returns to itself. Ice becomes part of the stone itself, as if

remembering something. The formations that welcome thousands daily reveal their older purpose

in cold like this. This sacred land reveals again what it has always been, a site of ceremony and

ancient memory. The sentinels return.

Sacred Light on Ancient Land — Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Winter Dawn

A solitary chapel emerges from darkened forest beneath a threatening sky, held by the mountains

rather than imposed upon them. Infrared renders the surrounding trees luminous and spectral, the

sacred geography announcing itself. That break of light in the upper frame reads as almost

supernatural, an opening in the dark.

Silent Dwelling — Colorado Prairie, Summer Dawn

The old schoolhouse sits at the horizon almost remembering its past, surrounded by prairie

grasses rendered luminous by infrared. All this vitality encircling a structure that has outlasted its

purpose. A meditation on endurance and absence.

The Graces — Garden of the Gods, Summer Fog

The Three Graces in fog are a different encounter than the Three Graces in sun. Warm sepia

carries the mythological weight that cool monochrome wouldn’t. The mist collapses and reveals

simultaneously, turning a familiar landmark into a place from before it had a name.