{"id":2448059,"date":"2019-08-27T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=311796"},"modified":"2019-08-27T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:40:00","slug":"new-exhibitions-from-merrill-steiger-and-richard-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/new-exhibitions-from-merrill-steiger-and-richard-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibitions from Merrill Steiger and Richard Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Homage to Miro” from artist Merrill Steiger’s “Zen \/ Dot \/ Energy” solo exhibition in her gallery at 605 E. Hyman Ave. in Aspen.<\/strong>
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Two pop-up art galleries on the 600 block of Hyman Avenue, adjacent to the Aspen Art Museum, have new bodies of work on view.<\/p>\n

Artist Merrill Steiger<\/a> will open the new exhibition \u201cZen \/ Dot \/ Energy\u201d on Thursday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. Steiger \u2014 who moved to Aspen last year from New York, where she had a decades-long career \u2014 has created large format works of intricate detail for the exhibition.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re inspired by her work with a Kabbalah teacher, and influenced by the minutely detailed and linked geometric handwork of contemporary aboriginal Australian artists (showcased in Aspen at the short-lived Brumby-Ute Gallery in 2015). The paintings link dots and circles on abstract canvas works as large as 7-by-5 feet.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second show Steiger has opened in her 625 E. Hyman space, following the more narrative works in her mid-summer \u201cSci Fi\u201d exhibition. The divergent aesthetics of the shows, she said, are aimed at introducing her work to Aspen and testing out the tastes of local collectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I don\u2019t yet know my audience here, I wanted to do something very different with this series,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A few doors down at R. Carter Gallery, the valley-based artist and Aspen Art Museum co-founder Richard Carter<\/a> recently opened \u201cMasks and Mandalas.\u201d The second of three shows Carter will hang in his summer-long pop-up, \u201cMasks and Mandalas\u201d runs through Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

It showcases a new series of work from Carter, for which he\u2019s painted portraits of masks from his personal collection. Each of these acrylic and watercolor paintings is mounted on two layers of vintage wallpaper in an antique frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe portraits alone felt forlorn and rather empty,\u201d Carter writes in the exhibition catalog. \u201cBy layering various wallpapers behind the portraits, they suddenly had a context that made them seem more alive, more like they do when they are being danced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Completed between 2017 and this year, the works center largely on animal masks \u2014 a jaguar, a monkey, a bull \u2014 in a rare venture into portraiture from the renowned abstract artist.<\/p>\n

The mask works are paired with geometric paintings from Carter\u2019s \u201cMandalas\u201d series, some of which he showcased in a 2016 show at the R2 Gallery<\/a> in Carbondale.<\/p>\n

Both artists\u2019 galleries will close at the end of September.<\/p>\n

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via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Homage to Miro” from artist Merrill Steiger’s “Zen \/ Dot \/ Energy” solo exhibition in her gallery at 605 E. Hyman Ave. in Aspen.Courtesy photo Two pop-up art galleries on the 600 block of Hyman Avenue, adjacent to the Aspen Art Museum, have new bodies of work on view. Artist Merrill Steiger will open the […]<\/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-2448059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 19:47:35","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'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\/2448059","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=2448059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}