{"id":2458915,"date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326216"},"modified":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-art-museums-2019-20-artist-fellows-unveil-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-art-museums-2019-20-artist-fellows-unveil-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Art Museum\u2019s 2019-20 artist fellows unveil projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-1024x640.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/arts-atw-052820-1-2048x1280.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Marilyn Lowey&#8217;s &#8220;West Wing Patterns of Power&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><em>Screenshot\/aspenartmuseum.org<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Last year around this time, a standing-room-only crowd filled the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum to see presentations from its inaugural fellowship class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The 2020 equivalent was a virtual meeting hosted, of course, on Zoom with more than 80 people following along as the locally based Artist Fellows Curt Carpenter, Marilyn Lowey, Lauren Peterson and Teal Roberts Wilson walked the digital audience through their projects and the creative journey of the nine-month fellowship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The program supports Aspen area-based artists \u2014 anyone within a 100-mile radius of the museum \u2014 with a $1,000 grant, visits with artists, curators and museum staff and monthly fellowship group meetings, which each of this year\u2019s artists noted were particularly meaningful (those too moved virtual this spring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">It would be hard to think of four works of art more different in form and content than the four project that emerged from the 2020 class of fellows: a work made of light and shadow about power and the American presidency; woodcut paintings of mountain scenes in and around Aspen; a performance piece about party rituals; depictions of horses that connected an artist unexpectedly with a deceased relative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">In the virtual presentations, each artist detailed their process and their fellowship project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">MARILYN LOWEY, \u2018WEST WING PATTERNS OF POWER\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">A professional lighting designer, Lowey\u2019s fine art pieces use light and shadow to create immersive environments that spark \u201cmind-body experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">She used the fellowship to work toward an immersive installation that will bring viewers into the Oval Office. Through the fellowship she made a scale model of the piece she hopes to realize at human scale \u2014 studying the dimension\u2019s of the president\u2019s off, digitally fabricating a maquette and creating a lighting scheme. The minimalist piece stripped away the curtains and the walls, the furniture and the president himself, leaving just the two iconic windows that sit behind the Resolute Desk. Lowey experimented with the natural light they bring into the room, the spirit of the room in bright day and ominous night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">After she added the lights, she spent two weeks experimenting with variations of light, while \u2014 in a pivotal period \u2014 reading power theory works by like Michel Foucault and Michael Asher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cI was looking for new insights and after two weeks continued onward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">CURT CARPENTER, \u2018A QUIET WALK BY THE ROARING FORK\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Carpenter used his fellowship to examine why he\u2019s committed himself to his signature woodcut painting style, which is inherently abstract, while depicting real natural scenes he finds in the local forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">His presentation detailed how his walks from his Aspen Business Center studio to the Roaring Fork River inspire him and how his 40-year study of the local landscape has led him to his \u201cclumsy\u201d black-and-white woodcut aesthetic, where detail is stripped away in search of another sort of visual truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cAs a realist, why draw on site outside? Why not work from photographs?\u201d he asked. \u201cFor me, observation-based art has integrity. \u2026 Aspen\u2019s high-alpine environment is made for woodcut, it\u2019s made of contrasts, dark shadows, a glacier-carved landscape,\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">LAUREN PETERSON, \u2018YOU\u2019RE INVITED, I DON\u2019T CARE IF YOU\u2019RE THERE\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">All of the fellows were impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic and its disruptions of daily life, but none more than Peterson. The interdisciplinary artist lost her job as a studio coordinator at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in its aftermath and relocated to North Carolina, from which she gave her presentation. It scrapped her original plan for her fellowship presentation \u2014 an immersive performance piece \u2014 as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Peterson\u2019s performance-based works use materials like balloons, streamers, birthday candles and noisemakers to make grotesque the rituals of a party. (At the A<a id=\"N0x2997740N0x29305b0:N0x2997740N0x2b66580\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/staff-artists-go-two-by-two-in-pairs-at-anderson-ranch-arts-center\/\">nderson Ranch staff show in November,<\/a> she memorably stuffed birthday cake in her face while performing inside a monstrous suit of party decorations.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cI\u2019m interested in using these mundane materials and making absurd gestures to make us question our behavior,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As public health restrictions scrapped her party performance plan for the museum and she lost her job, Peterson planned to stage roadside party performances on her cross-country trip leaving Aspen during the pandemic, but found her props didn\u2019t fit in her car. So before she left, Peterson staged a backyard rendition \u2014 a scene with a cactus inside a party sculpture filled with balloons \u2014 and made a film of the chaotic results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">TEAL ROBERTS WILSON, \u2018DRAWING HORSES\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Wilson began the fellowship by studying depictions of horses in art, drawn to the strangeness of them \u2014 from Rafael\u2019s 16th century dragon-slaying steads to sloppily made horse-emblazoned pillows she found at the Aspen Thrift Shop. Though her inquiry began with some ironic intentions, it led to some unexpectedly poignant and personal places. A photo of her grandmother as a youngster on a horse led Wilson to letters she\u2019d sent to her grandmother as she declined in dementia, which led Wilson to make resonant drawings about absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">One she shared, based on the photo, showed an empty outline of her young grandmother in a shadow-heavy scene. The fellowship led not only to this affecting body of work, but to a breakthrough in her process \u2014 that exploring ideas without an end goal in mind can lead to unexpected discoveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cThis project was a powerful reminder for me to trust creative work without purpose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/weekly\/aspen-art-museums-2019-20-artist-fellows-unveil-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Lowey&#8217;s &#8220;West Wing Patterns of Power&#8221;Screenshot\/aspenartmuseum.org Last year around this time, a standing-room-only crowd filled the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum to see presentations from its inaugural fellowship class. The 2020 equivalent was a virtual meeting hosted, of course, on Zoom with more than 80 people following along as the locally based Artist [&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-2458915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 05:49:32","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\/2458915","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=2458915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}