{"id":2458950,"date":"2020-05-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326444"},"modified":"2020-05-28T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:00:00","slug":"at-home-in-aspen-anderson-ranchs-virtual-art-salons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/at-home-in-aspen-anderson-ranchs-virtual-art-salons\/","title":{"rendered":"At home in Aspen: Anderson Ranch\u2019s Virtual Art Salons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bandranch-atd-052920-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bandranch-atd-052920-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bandranch-atd-052920-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bandranch-atd-052920-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>SImon Haas&#8217; untitled digital drawing, part of a series of recent depictions of Ben Affleck by the artist.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy image<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\"><a id=\"N0x116b910N0xfae220:\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/at-home-in-aspen-tom-sachs-coming-to-virtual-salon-at-anderson-ranch\/\">Tom Sachs<\/a> took a virtual Anderson Ranch Arts Center crowd of 200-plus on a tour of his makeshift home art studio on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Earpods in, phone in hand, from Queens, New York the artist took participants around to the stations where \u2013 over the last 11 weeks \u2013 he has been making stuff with what he has. Viewers got a peak at the small box of materials Sachs took home from his studio in mid-March thinking he\u2019d be back in a few days. They browsed his record collection (Public Enemy\u2019s \u201cFear of a Black Planet\u201d was on the turntable) and glimpsed in-progress pieces from his ongoing stay-home project: a series of celebrity \u201cportraits\u201d on Styrofoam Cup O\u2019Noodles containers (the new ones he shared with the Ranch audience included Jackie Kennedy and Steve Jobs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cYou can say you saw it here first,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Zoom- and Facebook Live-hosted event was the latest in the Ranch\u2019s Virtual Art Salon series, running for free on Tuesdays and bringing together artists, educators and the Ranch community. Artists brings work to discuss, they talk craft and philosophy and quarantine creativity, and they take questions.<\/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=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sachs detailed how he used the concept of \u201cin-situation resource utilization\u201d (ISRU) in his work, adapting NASA\u2019s practice of using found objects on other worlds for exploration. He showcased his Instagram-famous junk drawers and expanded a bit on his interest in them\u2013 he called them the place for things \u201ctoo valuable to throw away but too worthless to put in its proper place\u201d \u2013 and shared a video he cut during quarantine with his studio team. Part exercise video, part creative mission statement, part comedy, it details his studio philosophy of using ritual and routine to uncork creativity. The Sachs team, working separately at home, does push-ups to fatigue and then attempts to draw a straight line \u2013 a stay-home version of part of their studio routine \u2013 and he invited viewers to try it at home, growing the ranks of people who\u2019ve been joining the Sachs cult during quarantine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His online community-building initiatives are just beginning, Sachs indicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think this work will continue for years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s bonded our studio team and it\u2019s expanded it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Anyone who has attended any live virtual events \u2014 from happy hours to concerts to musical theater \u2014 during the stay-home period has experienced their limitations. But these salons are the rare virtual happening that can enhance the experience it\u2019s replacing, rather than just approximating it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The in-person artist talks of the past at Anderson Ranch generally followed the straight-forward format of an on-stage interview or lecture, sometimes with a slideshow. Though you\u2019re not in the same room at the Virtual Art Salon, the viewer sees the same thing they would at the in-person version while also, for example, virtually joining Tom Sachs on a tour of his studio, looking at his half-finished projects and his creative environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">What you miss out on is a visit to the Ranch\u2019s idyllic Snowmass campus, meeting new people in the audience at Schermer Meeting Hall, maybe a post-talk meal at the Ranch caf\u00e9 \u2013 elements anyone who has experienced them surely misses now. And these virtual events are prone to now-familiar digital speed bumps \u2013 the occasional accidental muting, unsynced audio\/video and spotty Internet connections (Sachs\u2019 event was postponed due to the valleywide outage earlier this month). But the Ranch\u2019s virtual programs have their own unique joys and seem to bode well for the summer ahead, when the Ranch has dropped its signature on-campus workshops for virtual ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Upcoming salon guests include photographer Elinor Carucci, who has drawn attention for sharing a photo diary of herself in isolation over the past two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Preceding Sachs in the salon lineup was <a id=\"N0x116b910N0xfae4c0:N0x116b910N0x110d1b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/activities-events\/the-furry-fun-world-of-the-haas-brothers-at-anderson-ranch-arts-center\/\">Simon Haas<\/a>, who with his twin brother and creative partner Nikolai, has become a fixture on the Anderson Ranch campus in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Best known for the furry and playful anthropomorphized furniture he makes with his brother, Haas has spent the stay-home stretch focused on digital 3-D modeling and digital drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m finding it a great way to handle sculpture \u2013 to look at it as a picture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At his salon event, the Los Angeles-based Haas shared recent digital drawings of Ben Affleck, continuing his interest in celebrity while directly responding to the stay-home coronavirus culture, in which paparazzi photos of a sullen Affleck smoking cigarettes and wearing a mask have bounced around social media and sparked daily digital discourse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019ve been loving making pictures of him smoking cigarettes during quarantine, and I love making images of something that could only exist right now,\u201d Haas said of the charcoal-like iPad drawings. \u201cI am attracted to him, but I also find it sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The experience with digital drawing has reshaped how Haas works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m finding the more I bounce back and forth between physical and digital drawing, the more I am training my eyes to understand the properties of an image,\u201d Haas said. \u201cIt is changing my whole aesthetic, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Haas will be teaching a digital drawing class for the Ranch online this summer, building off of his focus on them during the stay-home period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI was already introspective with my work,\u201d he told the online Ranch audience. \u201cBut it\u2019s going more that way. And more than anything it\u2019s changed my medium toward the digital.\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\/at-home-in-aspen-anderson-ranchs-virtual-art-salons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SImon Haas&#8217; untitled digital drawing, part of a series of recent depictions of Ben Affleck by the artist.Courtesy image Tom Sachs took a virtual Anderson Ranch Arts Center crowd of 200-plus on a tour of his makeshift home art studio on Tuesday. Earpods in, phone in hand, from Queens, New York the artist took participants [&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-2458950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 07:34:48","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\/2458950","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=2458950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}