{"id":2445060,"date":"2019-06-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=307451"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:00:00","slug":"richard-carter-full-circle-longtime-aspen-artist-opens-new-gallery-and-bauhaus-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/richard-carter-full-circle-longtime-aspen-artist-opens-new-gallery-and-bauhaus-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Carter, Full Circle: Longtime Aspen artist opens new gallery and Bauhaus shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8624338624339\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-307451-57\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) | Paintings from Richard Carter's\" the erratic class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Paintings from Richard Carter&#8217;s &#8220;The Erratic Series&#8221; exhibtion.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Paintings from Richard Carter's \" the erratic><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo | One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.<\/strong><br \/>Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo | One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.<\/strong><br \/>Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-6.jpg\" alt=\"One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-7.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo | One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.<\/strong><br \/>Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-7.jpg\" alt=\"One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) | Richard Carter\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Richard Carter<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Carter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) | Local artist Richard Carter flips through recent drawings in his new pop-up gallery in Aspen.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Local artist Richard Carter flips through recent drawings in his new pop-up gallery in Aspen.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Local artist Richard Carter flips through recent drawings in his new pop-up gallery in Aspen.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) | Richard Carter's new pop-up gallery at 601 E Hyman in Aspen.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Richard Carter&#8217;s new pop-up gallery at 601 E Hyman in Aspen.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Carter's new pop-up gallery at 601 E Hyman in Aspen.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) | From Richard Carter's\" the erratic opening june at r. carter class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>From Richard Carter&#8217;s &#8220;The Erratic Series&#8221; exhibition, opening Friday, June 14 at R. Carter Callery.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bcarter-atd-060719-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"From Richard Carter's \" the erratic opening june at r. carter><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/richard-carter-full-circle-longtime-aspen-artist-opens-new-gallery-and-bauhaus-shows\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/richard-carter-full-circle-longtime-aspen-artist-opens-new-gallery-and-bauhaus-shows\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Painter Richard Carter first showed his work in Aspen some four-and-a-half decades ago as he began a career that would make him one of the town\u2019s best-known and most acclaimed artists. After a much-lamented eight-year absence from the downtown scene, the painter is back with his own R. Carter Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carter is unveiling the gallery in mid-June, along with his \u201cErratic\u201d series of new paintings and drawings he\u2019s made since 2017. His downtown return is complemented by a Bauhaus-themed show in Carbondale featuring his early Bauhaus-influenced work and a third exhibition at Colorado Mountain College including paintings from his \u201cMandala\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carter\u2019s pop-up on Hyman Avenue is situated next to the Aspen Art Museum, which Carter co-founded 40 years ago. And his downtown homecoming comes amid Aspen\u2019s <a id=\"N0x1b082d0N0x1a42f40:N0x1b082d0N0x1bc6db8\" href=\"https:\/\/bauhaus100aspen.org\/\">yearlong Bauhaus 100 celebration<\/a>, commemorating the centennial of the German art school, of which <a id=\"N0x1b082d0N0x1a42fa0:N0x1b082d0N0x1bc6e48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspensojo.com\/articles\/2019\/2\/19\/a-q-and-a-with-basalt-based-artist-richard-carter\">Carter is a living descendent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carter has been a leading light of Aspen\u2019s visual art scene since the early 1970s, when he worked as an assistant to <a id=\"N0x1b082d0N0x1a43000:N0x1b082d0N0x1bc6f68\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/aspens-bauhaus-roots\/\">Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer<\/a> in Aspen while making his own work in a West End barn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though he\u2019s remained one of the most prominent valley-based artists, showing with galleries in Denver and Los Angeles and garnering a national following, Carter hasn\u2019t had gallery representation in downtown Aspen since 2011 when he had his final show at the David Floria Gallery. Like most locally based artists, he\u2019s moved his shows to spaces in Basalt and Carbondale as downtown lease rates forced Aspen galleries to exclusively sell the priciest of blue-chip art to afford rent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He\u2019s leased the Hyman gallery space on a short-term basis, while its landlords \u2014 the Hecht family \u2014 seek a long-term tenant. Carter has the space through the end of September, and is planning to rotate three exhibitions there while he has it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His new \u201cErratic\u201d paintings and drawings, filling the walls of R. Carter Gallery, are more narrative than most of Carter\u2019s abstract and geometric work. The series puts a finger on the unstable pulse of the humanity right now as the world order and the Earth itself balances precariously between our turbulent present moment and an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The series depicts monumental structures, temples, towers and boat-like vessels in the center of stormy backgrounds. His \u201cBabel Rising\u201d gives us a too-tall wobbling tower, \u201cErratic Cargo\u201d a top-heavy spire overloaded and ready to crash, his \u201cErratic Structure\u201d a house-like red form amid an emotive burst of particle waves, his \u201cAscending Vessel\u201d a rowboat out of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is how I\u2019m feeling \u2014 and how I\u2019m sure a lot of people are feeling,\u201d Carter said in the gallery on a recent afternoon. \u201cThat our universe is unstable right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He\u2019s created the tempestuous backdrops of the paintings with thousands of intricate, tiny dot and dash marks (Carter aggravated arthritis in his wrist during the meticulous process).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo me, this is the positive side of these,\u201d Carter said, running his hand over the gusty waves in one of the freshly hung paintings. \u201cAs unstable as things look, there is a positive energy flow that is a reality in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The series draws inspiration from geological \u201cerratic\u201d material: rocks placed in unlikely places by glacial erosion (the local backcountry is peppered with them). It\u2019s in keeping with much of Carter\u2019s geometric work, which over the decades has often used science and natural phenomena as a jumping-off point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The monuments and structures are fashioned out of carved masking tape, a signature Carter material since the early 1970s, beginning with his \u201cRadial\u201d series of paintings. Those are now on display in the \u201cBauhaus Seen\u201d exhibition at the R2 Gallery in Carbondale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The \u201cRadial\u201d paintings, made in 1973 while Carter was working for Bayer, depict centered circles in mostly muted colors. He\u2019s hung them frame-to-frame for the R2 show, entirely covering two walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carter hasn\u2019t shown the \u201cRadial\u201d works since a 1974 show at Tom Ward\u2019s Gargoyle Gallery in Aspen. He repaired a few that he had in storage and gathered more from clients and his children for the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI thought it would be cool, for the Bauhaus thing, to drag these out,\u201d he said. \u201cI had always wanted to get these paintings up somewhere, because I think it\u2019s some of the best work I ever did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Carbondale show also includes Bauhaus-inspired paintings by Aspen\u2019s Dave Durrance, and a collection of Bauhaus-styled furniture from across the U.S., including Anderson Ranch resident artists, curated by Brad Reed Nelson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The circular forms in Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d series have recurred throughout his work in the years since. Three paintings from <a id=\"N0x1b082d0N0x1a43060:N0x1b082d0N0x1bc77d8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/activities-events\/richard-carters-new-angle\/\">his \u201cMandala\u201d series<\/a>, from 2014 through 2016, make innovative use of similarly framed circles in saturated colors and will hang in Colorado Mountain College\u2019s Bauhaus-themed \u201cReturn to Simplicity\u201d group exhibition, opening next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Bauhaus celebration has brought Carter much attention this year, and forced the prolific and ever-evolving artist to look back. Last month at the Aspen Art Museum, a standing-room-only crowd gathered to hear Carter give a talk on his early career, his time with Bayer and the founding of the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe Bauhaus 100 has really made me dig,\u201d he said. \u201cThat digging made me remember a lot of this stuff about starting the museum, working for Bayer, having a kid. Those first years in Aspen were definitely chaotic. They were erratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carter has lived downvalley and worked out of a Basalt studio for years, so coming to Aspen every day to prepare his new gallery and hang the \u201cErratic\u201d show is a throwback. He\u2019s kept the gallery doors open during installation and seen a steady stream of old friends pop in to visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s the kind of full-circle moment you couldn\u2019t make up if you tried, bringing the artist back downtown for the first time in years, in a space next to the museum he co-founded as the town celebrates the centennial of the Bauhaus art school, of which he is a descendent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But Carter, amid a prolific spell of new creations, doesn\u2019t have much time for nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a really fertile two years,\u201d Carter said. \u201cIncredible. It didn\u2019t feel like that, but when you turn around and look back and see the amount of work, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/richard-carter-full-circle-longtime-aspen-artist-opens-new-gallery-and-bauhaus-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paintings from Richard Carter&#8217;s &#8220;The Erratic Series&#8221; exhibtion.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times (mandatory) One of a series of Richard Carter\u2019s \u201cRadial\u201d paintings from 1973. The works are part of the R2 Gallery\u2019s \u201cBauhaus Seen: Paintings by Richard Carter + Dave Durrance,\u201d opening Friday and running through July 5.Tony Prikryl\/Courtesy photo One of a series of Richard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 10:10:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}