{"id":2447034,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=310195"},"modified":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:00:00","slug":"artaspen-commissioned-artist-adrienne-elise-tarver-on-making-in-fertile-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/artaspen-commissioned-artist-adrienne-elise-tarver-on-making-in-fertile-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtAspen commissioned artist Adrienne Elise Tarver on making \u2018In Fertile Shadows\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adrienne Elise Tarver with \u201cIn Fertile Shadows\u201d at ArtAspen 2019.<\/strong>
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Nobody experiences the ArtAspen art fair quite the same way.<\/p>\n

Depending on how you navigated the floor, depending on the crowds, depending on what catches your eye, you may have left the 2019 fair \u2014 which ran July 25-28 \u2014 talking about Anthony James\u2019 dizzying optical illusion sculpture installations, the uncanny cardboard pulp sculptures and furniture of Domingos Totora, the irresistible pop culture riffs of painter Tyler Sean and street artist Skyler Grey, or all those Warhols, Hirsts and Harings peppering the show.<\/p>\n

But everybody who entered the transformed Aspen Ice Garden for ArtAspen\u2019s 10th outing had an experience with Adrienne Elise Tarver\u2019s \u201cIn Fertile Shadows.\u201d Everyone walked through this site-specific installation, strung from the ceilings and walls of the fair\u2019s entry hallway.<\/p>\n

The piece, fashioned in jungle-green paints and canopies constructed of hardware supplies, is part of an ongoing body of work for Tarver exploring migration through plant life \u2014 thinking about how plants are moved and domesticated.<\/p>\n

The artist made \u201cIn Fertile Shadows\u201d with simple window screens and caulk, then painted its five large pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the hardware store as much as the art store,\u201d Tarver said of her matierals at the ArtAspen opening July 25. \u201cOver the course of my career I\u2019ve had to unlearn a lot of the value system that we place on materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise with plants. She\u2019s been exploring why we value certain plants more than others, why some are considered weeds and some not, and what human intervention has done to our perception of plantlife.<\/p>\n

Based in New York, Tarver is the director of the HSA Gallery at the Harlem School for the Arts, where she is also director of art and design. Her multidisciplinary work with flora landed her on ArtNet\u2019s 2017 \u201cEmerging Female Artists\u201d list. The leaders of ArtAspen selected Tarver for their first commissioned artist, and expect to keep the project going with different artists annually.<\/p>\n

For the unusual ArtAspen corridor in the converted ice hockey rink, Tarver embraced the idea of arrivals, of what you do after setting foot in a new place \u2014 whether you\u2019re a colonialist or a viewer arriving at an art fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thinking about the idea of discovery \u2014 that childhood wonderment you have at discovering a garden, that innate desire to explore is something that\u2019s common in everybody,\u201d she said. \u201cIt came down to this idea of making a planting that allows transparency and allowed people to walk around it and be in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarver has been working with similar materials on plant-related works for about five years, though the forms have evolved. Currently, she is beginning to try to make free-standing sculptures in the ode of \u201cIn Fertile Shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see stopping anytime soon,\u201d she said. \u201cBut my work does evolve and materials come from whatever I need at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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