The focal point of this new publication on Guadalajara-based artist Rico is the work made specifically for his Aspen Art Museum exhibition, The Discipline of the Cave.
In the fifth issue of the Aspen Art Museum's biannual Permanent Collection, artists, writers, authors and curators (many of whom have worked with the museum directly) address themes of dreaming, being and doing. With work by George Baker, JG Ballard, Lynda Benglis, Paul Chan, Sam Falls, David Foster Wallace, Isa Genzken, Renée Green, Jay Heikes, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica, Catherine Opie and Paul Thek.
The fourth issue in the Aspen Art Museum's Permanent Collection publication series continues to match new voices to those of artists, writers and curators from the museum's extensive history. Issue IV focuses on the idea of chance and its role in artistic production.
Taking humanity and popular culture as his subject matter, Nate Lowman (born 1979) approaches these themes as an active participant in the collective American experience. Underscoring this is desire: a longing for something or someone, or a wish for something to happen. The duality inherent in desire is contained in Lowman's use of well-known images whose meanings are both instantly recognizable and constantly in flux. Appropriated, relatable ...
Permanent Collection III, the latest volume in the Aspen Art Museum's new series, focuses on the subject of happiness.Drawing from the museum's 38-year history, the publication features contributions from Heidi Zuckerman, Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin and Derek Jarman.
One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Published on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Aspen Art Museum, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights four recent bodies of work on paper that ex...
Through a variety of media, including photographs, sculpture, video and printed ephemera, New Zealand artist Simon Denny (born 1982) invites us to reflect on the evolution of television and video as both technology and cultural construct. Denny's recent works have included investigations into the "architecture" of the TV set itself, the genre conventions of documentary and the myriad processes by which content is translated from one medium to ...
This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Alan Shields (1944-2005) in summer 2016, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's expansive practice, which encompassed printmaking, painting, sculpture and installation. Moving easily between these different mediums, Shields, with his deep consideration of material and color, was interested in opening up a broader context of art, creating objects that coul...
In honor of Aspen Art Museum's collaboration with the Aspen Skiing Company, this comprehensive survey includes interviews with artists such as Mark Bradford, Anne Collier, Teresita Fernández, Mark Grotjahn, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dave Muller, Takashi Murakami, David Shrigley and Shinique Smith.
Permanent Collection is inspired by the idea that the Aspen Art Museum's exhibition program is constantly rotating and that the museum itself does not have a collection. This new publication series not only offers insight into the museum's programming, but also contributes to the larger field investigating and responding to visual culture. Focusing on the idea of the institution, Permanent Collection I features interviews between Heidi Zuckerm...
This second issue in the Aspen Art Museum's publication series, Permanent Collection, continues to draw from the institution's diverse exhibition program. The series brings together artists, writers and curators that the museum has worked with previously while also functioning as a platform for new voices. Centering on the idea of people or objects that have disappeared, Permanent Collection II features contributions from Heidi Zuckerman, Cour...
This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Rodney McMillian, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's paintings, a section of his practice also encompassing sculpture, installation and performance. Incorporating and challenging the notion of art as social and historical critique, the works, essays and interview in this publication examine issues of race, identity and commerce in contemporary society...
Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film "Soy Mi Madre" examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet's "The Maids"--a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that renders surreal the intricate p...
