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Durer's Rhino by Graham Ansell

The Rhino Returns

When Graham Parker Ansell was 19 years old, he put an aluminum rhinoceros in a red wagon and wheeled it to the foot of Canyon Road. He’d created the rhino himself, with Durer’s famous woodcut as a guide and the molten ashes of a dying relationship as a forge. It was a glowing beast that rested on its belly as though its enormous plates of armor had become too heavy to bear.

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THE ART OF THE RIDE

Win an art adventure with Canyon Contemporary and Mellow Velo If anyone knows the intimate beauty of the West, it’s Cyndia Harlan. She journeys deep into the aspen forests of New Mexico and Colorado to draw inspiration for her luminous mixed media paintings. When she gets back to her studio, …

Have Your Art and Eat it Too!

Visit Canyon Contemporary on this year’s Edible Art Tour Canyon Road is a little sleepy in February. Small groups of tourists drift …

THE HEART COLLECTIVE

Be A Part Of The Heart When I call him for an interview, Tanner Lawley is far from home. The Allen, Texas …

Close for Comfort

Kathy Beekman is what her husband calls a “toucher.” When she goes on hikes she runs her hands over tree trunks and …

Contemporary Heart

Holiday magic at Canyon Road Contemporary Walk through Canyon Road Contemporary Art’s snow dusted sculpture garden, across the porch and through the …

When Sculptures Stop Traffic

Canyon Road Contemporary Art has been around for 30 years, and its historic building even longer, but when Nancy Leeson took the …

"Celia" by John Petrey
"Lori" by John Petrey

Hot Couture

When John Petrey worked in advertising he had two mottos. The first was “Beauty is in the eye of the checkbook holder,” and the second was “If you can’t have fun, why show up sober?”

Sunset, Casey Horn
Kiln Worked Glass, Doug Gillis

Zen at 70 mph

Casey Horn was standing by the door with a serene smile on his face at Friday’s opening of “Zen,”Canyon Road Contemporary Art’s latest show. He seemed to be channeling his work, a dynamic series of metal sculptures in the shapes of Japanese characters that possess gravity-defying balance and soothing symmetry.

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