Brucie Holler
Ben Knight
Brucie Holler
Ben Knight
Brucie Holler
Ben Knight
Daniel Tucker Gallery
The artists will be featured at our Annual New Year’s Eve Gala, where the Daniel Tucker Gallery is transformed into a formal dining room for a four-course, plated, sit-down dinner catered by one of Telluride’s exceptional chefs, Eliza Gavin of 221 South Oak. The evening also features artist talks by our featured Gala Artists, Ben Knight and Brucie Holler, and entertainment between courses by Telluride Theater. What a fabulous way of ringing in the new year! (To reserve seats for the Gala, contact Kathleen at 970/728-3886 or kathleen@ahhaa.org.)
The public Opening Reception will be on Thursday, January 2, 2014.
Brucie HollerBrucie Holler, a South Carolina native, received a BFA in painting from Florida State University and did graduate work at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. She then moved to Telluride, Colorado and worked for seven years teaching and serving as Director of Exhibitions for the Ah Haa School for the Arts, a non-profit art school. She has studied with a variety of internationally known painters including Richard Smith, Mario Martinez, and Truman Lowe among others and has shown her work in galleries in Florida, South Carolina and Colorado. She moved back to South Carolina in 1997 where she maintains a studio.
“As a painter, I am interested in exploring the idea of beauty and my response to daily life through nature, symbolism and an investigation of the interior landscape. Whether I am working in abstraction or representation, I am interested in creating spaces and moments of contemplation that are inspired by personal experience.”
Ben KnightBen Knight, a North Carolina native, received an “A” in photography at Chapel Hill High School and failed all other classes. He attended Durham Tech’s Hillsborough Campus for two days to receive his General Education Diploma, narrowly squeaking by after randomly filling in dots on the math section. Ben spent a decade as the photo editor at the Telluride Daily Planet until the new owner decided $13 an hour was too steep an investment for a full time photographer. After three years of soaking up indomitable spirit as the Assistant Chief Slide Projector Focus Puller [ACSPFP] at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, Ben began dabbling in documentary filmmaking with his friend Travis. Ben now lives on E. Columbia street in Telluride with his special friend Katie and their two cats Nellie and Birdie. Ben has won a bunch of awards for what he does, which he displays in a neat pile inside a small closet. In 2012, he was a guest speaker at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, and hopes to never do anything like that again.
“I still avoid calling myself a filmmaker or a photographer. It’s weird. I guess I just avoid taking myself too seriously because I see people around me doing it all the time, and for the most part it’s not making their work any better. I couldn’t tell a good story verbally if my life depended on it, so I think film was my way of filling that void. I fucking love the challenge of transforming an obscure subject into something easily digestible that almost anyone can relate with.”
