{"id":2455272,"date":"2020-03-02T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321906"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:45:00","slug":"anderson-ranch-hosts-14-artists-from-miamis-oolite-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/anderson-ranch-hosts-14-artists-from-miamis-oolite-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Ranch hosts 14 artists from Miami\u2019s Oolite Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8789893617021\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-321906-35\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Oolite Artist-in-Residence Cara Despain sews a project with her work displayed behind her at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Despain makes large-scale murals using burnt debris gathered from wildfire sites. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Oolite Artist-in-Residence Cara Despain sews a project with her work displayed behind her at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Despain makes large-scale murals using burnt debris gathered from wildfire sites. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Oolite Artist-in-Residence Cara Despain sews a project with her work displayed behind her at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Despain makes large-scale murals using burnt debris gathered from wildfire sites. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-1-1024x727.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Interdisciplinary artist-in-residence Alejandro Contreras sits in front of his painting laughing about how much he loves his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary artist-in-residence Alejandro Contreras sits in front of his painting laughing about how much he loves his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-1-1024x727.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Interdisciplinary artist-in-residence Alejandro Contreras sits in front of his painting laughing about how much he loves his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-2-1024x689.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Sculpture artist Michael Loveland welds pieces for his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Sculpture artist Michael Loveland welds pieces for his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-2-1024x689.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Sculpture artist Michael Loveland welds pieces for his work at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Work by artist Michael Vasquez is displayed in his studio space at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Work by artist Michael Vasquez is displayed in his studio space at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Work by artist Michael Vasquez is displayed in his studio space at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-4-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Artist William Osorio paints in his Anderson Ranch studio in Snowmass during his residency on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Artist William Osorio paints in his Anderson Ranch studio in Snowmass during his residency on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-4-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Artist William Osorio paints in his Anderson Ranch studio in Snowmass during his residency on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-5-1024x686.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Printmaking artist-in-residence Rhea Leonard looks down at her drying piece of art in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Printmaking artist-in-residence Rhea Leonard looks down at her drying piece of art in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-5-1024x686.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Printmaking artist-in-residence Rhea Leonard looks down at her drying piece of art in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-6-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Embroidery and Resin artist-in-residence Kelly Breez works on a poster in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Embroidery and Resin artist-in-residence Kelly Breez works on a poster in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/2020\/03\/Andranch-atd-030220-1-6-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Embroidery and Resin artist-in-residence Kelly Breez works on a poster in her studio at Anderson Ranch on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/anderson-ranch-hosts-14-artists-from-miamis-oolite-arts\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/anderson-ranch-hosts-14-artists-from-miamis-oolite-arts\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">A walk through the Anderson Ranch Arts Center studios in recent weeks revealed works from wildly different regions of the imagination \u2014 from avant-garde film to ceramics, paintings made from soot to woven fabrics, paper collage and metalworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But the 14 artists currently in residence on the Snowmass Village campus do have one thing in common. They\u2019re all based in Miami, and they\u2019re here together for a five-week residency through the Oolite Arts Home and Away program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Ranch will host an open house Tuesday, inviting the public to meet the artists and see them at work in the studios. Dennis Scholl, president and CEO of Oolite and a longtime Anderson Ranch supporter, will lead a guided tour of the open studios at 5 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Home and Away has sent select Miami artists to residencies at locales including the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Anderson Ranch was an ideal place for an Oolite residency, Scholl said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe brought all of these artists to Anderson Ranch because I think Anderson Ranch is one of the most important artist residencies in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t just give you a cabin in the woods and walk away. They give you access to things you\u2019ve never had access to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Scholl noted the Ranch\u2019s long-established, cross-disciplinary ethos and the creative breakthroughs it can lead to. Many of the Oolite residents have tried their hands at new media over the past few weeks, working and playing together in an environment resident artist Lauren Shapiro described as \u201csummer camp vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Founded in 1984 and formerly known as ArtCenter\/South Florida, Oolite supports Miami artists with classes and residencies in the city along with its juried Home and Away trips. It recently announced plans for a new campus in the Little River neighborhood, slated to open in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Scholl, a part-time Aspenite who in 2014 was honored with the Ranch\u2019s Service to the Arts Award, joined Oolite with a mission to help give Miami artists a global reach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThey can hang with any artists in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to connect them to the international art world that I\u2019ve been a part of for a long time \u2014 the artist, curators and collectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Artists spoke of the creative, intellectual and professional growth they\u2019ve felt during their stay here, working in a new environment and with new resources, given five weeks to focus on their work (a $2,500 Oolite stipend covering expenses like rent back home).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m here to explore and hopefully grow,\u201d painter Michael Vasquez said. \u201cAt home my studio is a warehouse with walls and lights. Here I can explore printmaking and ceramics and that\u2019s what I\u2019m here to do \u2014 to grow artistically and personally. For me the two are certainly connected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Cara Despain has spent the past year using burnt debris from wildfires for her artwork. The large-format canvases in the series are a deep and sooty black made from rubbing charred wood. Here she used material from California wildfires, etching the placenames from which she gathered wood into the ashy works: \u201cPacific Palisades\u201d and \u201cReagan Library,\u201d for instance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think of them as landscape paintings of the new American West,\u201d she explained. \u201cThey still smell like fire, they still shed ash. They\u2019re kind of a mess. But it\u2019s inherent to the work that they continue to fall apart. That\u2019s the subject for the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She began the series with debris from 2019 fires in Malibu and Paradise, California. Raised in Utah, Despain is planning to show some of the pieces at an upcoming solo exhibition in Cedar City. She also plans to gather material from the burn scar on Basalt Mountain to make a work memorializing the 2018 Lake Christine Fire here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWherever I am I try to collect stuff or do research that is related to the immediate area,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t hope for these wildfires so that I can keep making my art. But so long as they are burning, I am going to confront the viewer with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">During the residency Nicole Salcedo opened the solo exhibition \u201cMost Beloved\u201d \u2014 an installation of paper, fabric and drawing work \u2014 at the Art Base in Basalt. It is on view through March 19. Often taking inspiration from nature, Salcedo has used her time here to explore using natural materials in her work \u2014 mixing snow in her paint, drawing with sticks and stones she\u2019s picks up around the Ranch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIn the residency I\u2019ve been gathering natural material like rocks and pine needles and I\u2019m using them as mark-making tools,\u201d she explained. \u201cThis has been an amazing experience, interacting with a different ecosystem and see what I can get out of it and how it affects my work. It\u2019s been really exciting to experience a totally different environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Filmmaker Edson Jean is learning to weld while he is at the Ranch. Jean\u2019s main focus is a screenplay based on one of the more salacious Miami news stories of recent years: the so-called \u201cCauseway Cannibal\u201d incident in 2012 where a man bit off the face of another on the MacArthur Causeway. With news clippings covering the wall above his laptop in the studio, Jean explained that he is aiming to tell the deeper story that never made it into the tabloid headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stepping away from Miami has given him a fresh perspective on the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI was interested in working on this idea outside of the physical place where it takes place, where there is so much physical influence,\u201d he said. \u201cI was curious what would happen being in such a different place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Painter William Osario, who working on pieces for a September gallery exhibition in Miami, turned his eye toward his fellow Oolite artists. He\u2019s made portraits of all of his fellow residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fellow painter Thomas Bils is working on photo-referential works that are slightly askew. Find him on Instagram and you\u2019ll find a unique series he made here: he got a slew of parking tickets recently in Miami, so he is making sketch paintings on them and selling them on social media for the cost of the tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For ceramicist Lauren Shapiro, the residency is a continuation of a creative inquiry she began last summer, when she took a digital mold-making workshop at the Ranch. She\u2019s gotten key direction, she said, from curator visits with Helen Molesworth and Larry Ossei-Mensah, and has found the collaborative environment inspiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s been great having the others here,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause we walk through each others\u2019 spaces, give suggestions, and that\u2019s been really helpful. Usually we are making art in a vacuum, so to get all these awesome suggestions is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Shapiro\u2019s neighbor in the ceramics studio is Kelly Breez, who is at work on a series of rugs and tapestries based on hyper-masculine advertising materials \u2014 old posters and print ads for tools and cars and the like. Her sun-drenched corner studio space, she noted, is a long way from the dank urban warehouse where she works in Miami, though it hasn\u2019t nudged her away from her familiar subjects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI thought, \u2018Maybe I\u2019ll make something that\u2019s nice and calm here,\u2019\u201d she said, adding with a laugh: \u201cNo, it\u2019s still the muscles and hot chicks and drills and cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Michael Loveland, a sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist, photographed a snowflake on the side of an ice machine while driving to Snowmass. The image has led to a range of multimedia work here, from silk screens to sculpture to collages inspired by ski trail maps of Snowmass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The same maps are fodder for Alejandro Contreras, who has been piling up colorful and intricate collages during the residency, including many made with pieces of the trail maps. Contreras has found himself working around the clock here, experimenting with every new art toy and tool he can find on the Ranch campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to make these five weeks magical,\u201d he said, \u201cand make it feel like 10 months.\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\/anderson-ranch-hosts-14-artists-from-miamis-oolite-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oolite Artist-in-Residence Cara Despain sews a project with her work displayed behind her at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Despain makes large-scale murals using burnt debris gathered from wildfire sites. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Interdisciplinary artist-in-residence Alejandro Contreras sits in front of his painting laughing about how much [&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":["post-2455272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:42:23","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\/2455272","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=2455272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}