Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 6-9 pm
On view: March 26 – April 19, 2026
Textures brings together four artists working across ceramics, mixed media, photography, and painting to explore surface, process, and material presence. The exhibition highlights work that embraces tactility – where layered marks, physical gesture, and material experimentation create visual depth and sensory resonance. Through hand-built clay, mixed-media, photographic processes, and painterly surfaces, the artist’s foreground texture is not as embellishment, but as the central language of expression. Together, the works invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and consider how touch, time, and process shape both the object and the experience of seeing.
Carbery Morrow - ceramics
When Carbery Morrow discovered the responsiveness of clay more than twenty-five years ago, she was captivated. Carbery is drawn to hand-building techniques because of the imperfect, organic forms that emerge. Often, she starts with a slab or coil and allows the clay to guide her. Carbery’s work often takes the shape of curvy, asymmetrical, sculptural (and often functional) vessels. She also gravitates towards playful pieces, such as lopsided houses and circles.
Carbery cycles between soft white clay, gritty red clay, and even grittier black clay, all stoneware. The characteristics of each clay body feed her need to grow and change. An ancient symbol of evolution, the spiral is her signature. Early on, Carbery carved a spiral out of clay. This same spiral image has evolved in her work, and she hopes it reflects an appreciation for the natural world, imparting a sense of simple joy.
Marni Myers - mixed media
Design and photography are two essential forces in Marni Myer’s creative process—each one feeding and challenging the other. Marni has always been attuned to the spaces around her, a sensitivity shaped by growing up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where the city’s urban grid left a lasting impression on how structure and pattern coexist in our environment. Grounded in graphic design, Marni’s photography explores her relationship with pattern, texture, and minimalism, distilling the subtle beauty of everyday moments into images that spark curiosity and invite reflection.
Marni’s current work with alternative processes is an exploration of layering, both literal and conceptual. Through a tactile, hands-on approach, she’s moved away from direct botanical representation toward a softer, more painterly aesthetic where abstraction and mystery take center stage. The result is work that embraces the intangible, inviting viewers into a space of quiet discovery.
Stephen Podrasky - photography
Fine art photographer Stephen Podrasky is a visual storyteller who primarily uses a street photography approach to capture the moments he conceives in his imagination. After earning his BA in Fine Art Photography, he took his camera to the streets, first in Kansas City and later in Denver, focusing on his personal work in between photo sessions for advertising agencies, industry and fashion. Having spent his early career working on film, he brings to his digital work an intuitive understanding of light shaped by his practice of mentally visualizing the final print while looking through the optical viewfinder, rather than relying on the camera’s back screen. Even now, his view is that no image is complete until it has been printed.
Currently focusing solely on fine art photography, he uses these analog sensibilities to capture the
interplay of light, texture and emotion he encounters while walking around the city. Among his
recent bodies of work are Urban Alleys, colorful studies of the quirky and ever-evolving collage he
discovers while exploring back streets, and Caged, a meditation on our relationship with the
animals we display in zoos and aquariums. His work is held in numerous corporate and private
collections and has been published in several notable magazines and journals. He lives and works in Denver, where he exhibits with the photography collective Photo Pensato and D’art Gallery.
Nijole Rasmussen - painting
Nijole’s body of work in “Textures” explores our connection to a deeper vision of the observer. Art
is a unique reflection of outer reality and with these paintings she expresses the perception and
vision of one’s soul. With this language of shapes and colors, Nijole’s body of work communicates
to the viewer thoughts, emotions and that unique perception of reality that allows her to create her own world and live there protected by this illuminate power of art.
The blues and greens of the canvas are harbingers of nature’s reign in one’s mind. Horizons, flowers, rivers, abstract forms are tied gently together to express gratitude just being here and now. There are so many possibilities to express yourself, but the canvas and brush have taken priority. Life is Art. We differ in nothing more than our power to heal and feel. This body of work is Nijole’s healing and mostly feeling of the edges of the boundary, while letting go of intruding past. Feeling the center of mature core and understanding the importance of being present and grateful is the goal the artist had in mind.
EXHIBITION EVENTS
Show Run Dates: March 26 – April 19, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 5-9 pm
First Friday: Friday, April 3, 5-9 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, April 12, 2 pm
Collectorʼs Night: Friday, April 17, 5-9 pm
Last Look: Sunday, April 19, 11 am – 4 pm
Banner Image: Nijole Rasmussen, “Evolving.”
