Second Annual LivAspenArt Loves Fashion: “Verbatim”

March 10 – April 22, 2012
Featuring New Works by Mark Brendon Smith, Stephanie Dodes, Carly Sewell, and with special trunk show by Virgin, Saints and Angels

Opening Celebration with DJ: March 13th, 5 – 9 pm

Winter Conversation Series Part 3: Andrea Shenk on the emerging collector, March 13th, 5pm

Verbatim: marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; “an exact mind”; “an exact copy”; “hit the exact center of the target.”

–“As an artist one can “hit the target” whether with color and line as with Mark Brendon Smith’s and Matt Neuman’s new works, or with visual narratives such as in “Apocalypse Fabulous?” by Carly Sewell. With our show this month “Verbatim”, we ask you to look at both the direct target hit by the artist’s intention, and to question how we as the audience either respond “word for word” and “eye for eye” or if our digestion of the work and interpretation takes us beyond this visual-verbatim experience. Please come meet the artists and discuss what you find in their work… perhaps you will share “an exact mind”. I personally love this idea of the emotional and literal responses we can share in common with the author and artist as well as the adventures a piece of artwork or a passage of literature can send us on that are a new creation in and of themselves.”

History, Memory – Personal and Collective

Current-491x284New work by Amy Butowicz, Cooper Holoweski, Tony Prikryl, Jacob Rhodes and David Stassi
February 2 – March 7, 2012
Opening Reception: February 18th, 5-8pm
Winter Conversation Series Part 2: Rebecca Mirsky on the curatorial process, February 18th, 5pm

What drives us to move forward, what triggers our memories, propels us to evolve, sentences us to repeat, allows us to envision and recreate our realities? These are the questions asked by the artists and their works in our current exhibition. Whether the iconic landscapes of Americana in Holoweski’s works on paper and Lightners’ small paintings, the overt messages tied to the nostalgic campaign buttons by David Stassi, the jungle of indecipherable personal text in Butowicz’s large works on canvas, or the intriguing sub-culture of textiles created by Jacob Rhodes, all these artists are pushing their mediums to new heights of past emotions revisited. A bright and honest present represented by their art – A reason to make us think, question and move forward.

details for image: Cooper Holoweski, The Ghost and the Widow (diptych), 2011, Acrylic, Xerox Transfer, and Spray Paint on Paper, 25.5 x 22 inches each

 

Energy As Currency

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Stanley Bell and Matt Neuman

December 7-January 31, 2011-2012

LivAspenArt is pleased to announce Energy as Currency, a group exhibition including new work by Stanley Bell, Matt Neuman, Mariana Vieira, and Kurt Lightner from December 7th – January 30th with a holiday reception in conjunction with Aspen Sojourner Art Solstice on December 22nd from 5 – 8pm. There will be a discussion with Stanley Bell on the creative process from 5 – 5:30pm.