My Work in Aspen’s City Hall
This month I visited my artwork featured in Aspen’s City Hall Biennial!
Reception: Thursday, September 11th
The Art:
The Exhibition:
The Reception: Thursday, September 11th
Art, music and refreshments will fill the three floors of Aspen City Hall on Thursday, September 11th during a free community reception celebrating the 11 local and regional artists in the city hall biennial exhibition. It will be a progressive event where we flow from one floor to the next, with each level having different snacks and some quick words from each artist, plus live music in the atrium. Come!
VIP @ Aspen Artweek!
As a lovely perk of exhibiting my work in Aspen City Hall, I participated in several world-class art events in Aspen this month with VIP tickets!
Aspen Art week must be felt to be believed, and I struggle to convey its intensity. “By late July, Aspen’s Social calendar runs on high-altitude overdrive,” wrote Daniel Cassady for ARTnews in his article about Aspen Art Week, and I couldn’t agree more. I felt like every single waking hour I had five different things I wanted to be doing at the same time. And I often managed to get more than one of them in, and then I feverishly asked other people to share their experiences of the good things I missed (for example, I missed out on Matthew Barney‘s Tactical Parallax because I stayed after Werner Herzog’s talk to visit with him one-on-one). The abundances multiplied daily. I’m still reeling! And I’m just beginning to unpack it all.
This article from W magazine was published the day I arrived on the scene, and nicely summarizes many main events of my trip for me: The Aspen Art Fair, Intersect Aspen, and Aspen Art Museum‘s inaugural AIR summit, which was a major highlight, and one I hope to cover more next month.
The Aspen Art Fair is an intimate salon-style takeover of Hotel Jerome. It also features excursions throughout the area including visits to the homes of notable collectors. Here I am at one of them:
Here’s a blurb from an article on the Aspen Art Fair:
“The Hotel Jerome itself-awarded a Michelin Key and widely considered Aspen’s cultural living room-plays a central role in the fair’s identity. Nearly every available space on the ground floor is used for art, with in-room installations transforming guest suites into salon-style exhibitions. While there are traditional art fair booths, the setting feels less like a convention center and more like a private club, fostering a kind of accidental intimacy: collectors stumble into gallerists, artists trade hiking recommendations with advisors, and fairgoers drift between paintings and mini-bars. It’s this atmosphere-deliberately informal, defiantly un-boothlike-that cofounders Becca Hoffman and Bob Chase see as a core part of the fair’s success.”
Yes, that was my experienece. My highlights included the Fine Art Group‘s annual women’s walk and talk, where I met a potential future collaborator for a wearable collection I’m working on for next year, experiencing James Surls‘ prints at Skye Gallery, visiting with curators and gallerists in their booths, seeing Anne Von Freyberg‘s work in person (and really just seeing the entire K Contemporary setup–such considered curation and playful use of space–it was my favorite by far!), and even peeping into the Libertine Popup right outside the fair.
Aspen City Hall Biennial
