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27/7/2011

Two Exhibitions

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

Haegue Yang: The art and tecnique of folding the land

2011 JANE AND MARC NATHANSON DISTINGUISHED ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Internationally renowned artist Haegue Yang creates installations that include photographic, video, and sculptural elements and are informed by the artist’s philosophical and political investigations. Responding to the places where she exhibits, Yang creates site-specific new work that incorporates both the architecture of the exhibition space and materials gathered from the region. Her highly refined and yet completely particular sense of materiality, combined with an elegant sense of space and atmosphere, contribute to her enveloping and resonant installations.

Part of Yang’s appeal is the playful, highly attuned sensibility she brings to her selection of objects. Everything from miniblinds to brightly colored extension cords are fair game for inclusion, yet her installations have a striking formal focus and clarity. For her exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, Yang has begun gathering clothing display racks as well as mountain river driftwood to use as armatures for a new series of light sculptures. The wood, pinecones, and other natural materials she has collected mark a new aspect of her work, one she will develop while working here as the Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. The Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Yang’s work will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished with the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, which is staging a concurrent exhibition of Yang’s work in the summer of 2011.

Founded in 2008 by AAM National Council members Jane and Marc Nathanson, the Aspen Art Museum’s Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence program furthers the museum’s goal of engaging the larger community with contemporary art. Each residency results in a new body of work produced by and exhibited at the AAM. Past Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artists are British-born Phil Collins, American artist Peter Coffin (2009), and New York–based artist Marlo Pascual (2010).

Thursday, September 22, 6 p.m.
Doryun Chong, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson talk about the work of Haegue Yang.

Opening Reception: July 28, 6–8 p.m.

Thursday, July 28, 5 p.m.
A members-only gallery walkthrough with artist Haegue Yang and AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

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Stephen Shore: Abu Dhabi

As an artist and teacher, Stephen Shore has had perhaps the most deeply felt impact on American photography of the past half-century. In 1965, Shore began documenting Andy Warhol’s factory, creating a body of work that, in 1971, was the subject of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever single-artist show by a living photographer. Shore was 24 at the time.

Shore’s iconic images from the American Surfaces and Uncommon Places series of the 1970s brought radical treatments of color and space to seemingly banal views of American life. Those works documented working-class homes, small-town intersections, plates of food in diners, parking lots, strip malls, and cinemas. Today, as then, Shore dynamically balances this apparently casual subject matter with masterful formal rigor, giving his works a poetic tension and lending a charged beauty to what we see around us but so often overlook.

In the past decade Shore has been shooting with a digital camera and producing on-demand, short-run books with Apple’s iPhoto software. Embracing the speed and freedom of these innovations, Shore has created stunning new bodies of work through modest means and by using vernacular techniques. Featuring thirty-six images from one such recent series shot entirely in Abu Dhabi, Shore’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum—the first time these images have been printed or exhibited—will give audiences in this country a nuanced, street—level view of the region that’s refreshingly free from media exaggeration.

Thursday, September 1, 6 p.m.
Suzanne Cotter, Cocurator of the Sharjah Biennial 10 and Curator of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, explores Abu Dhabi and visual culture in the Middle East as a backdrop for viewing Stephen Shore’s most recent photographs.

Thursday, July 28, 5 p.m.
A members-only gallery walkthrough with artist Stephen Shore and
AAM Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

Opening Reception: July 28, 6–8 p.m.

Image: Haegue Yang, Pine Spell – Carbonized Summer, 2010. Courtesy of Kukje Gallery, Seoul. Photo: Nick Ash.

Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street - Aspen
Opening hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday, noon–6 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Free admission

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