2019 AAM ARTIST FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

 

New fellowship initiative providing recognition, support,

and mentored professional development for artists working

within a hundred-mile radius of the AAM culminates

 

 

 

ASPEN, COLORADO (May 1, 2019) — The inaugural year of the Aspen Art Museum’s Artist Fellowship program will culminate with four project presentations by participants Wewer Keohane, Michael Lorsung, Shannon Richardson, and Andrew Roberts-Gray on Thursday, May 16, 2019, from 5–6:30 p.m., at the AAM.

 

With four awards given annually, the AAM Artist Fellowship provides recognition, support,and expansive mentored professional development for artists working in any medium living within a hundred-mile radius of the AAM. Fellows are given the unique opportunity to expand their studio practice through the use of the museum and its programmatic resources, meeting once a month over the course of nine months for opportunities ranging from contact with visiting artists and curators to presentations from AAM staff and studio visits with the Fellowship group. Each Fellow receives a $1,000 honorarium to help realize their project. The museum announced the first Artist Fellowship recipients October 12, 2018.

 

 

Raised in Europe, Keohane holds PhDs in Creative Arts and Psychology. In 1981, Keohanemoved to Carbondale, CO, to pursue visual art among other interests relating to the fields of art and psychology. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum,New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC,Brooklyn Library, New York, Musée L’Éventail, Paris, the Powers Art Center, Carbondale, CO,as well as in the collections of universities, corporations, and libraries. Keohane lives and works in Carbondale, and is the author of the book Artful Dreaming.

 

PROJECT: Embracing Mystery is a presentation accompanied by a handmade book and ceiling installation piece in which Keohane shares how she becomes open to ideas, synchronicities, influences, and change throughout her creative process. She will explain how this process has been encouraged by the AAM Fellowship.  

 

Michael Lorsung

Michael Lorsung is a trans-media artist who lives in Snowmass Village, CO, where he is the Coordinator for the Sculpture Studio at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Lorsung received his MFAin Ceramics and Sculpture from Ohio University in Athens, and has taught at both Louisiana State University and Ohio University, as well as abroad at the International Ceramic Studioin Kecskemét, Hungary. Lorsung has exhibited his work widely throughout the United States.

 

PROJECT: Lorsung will discuss his project, which uses technology and leverages the infrastructure of commerce to expose the humanity that underpins parts of our existence, especially in remote areas such as ours.

 

Shannon Richardson

Shannon Richardson earned her BFA from the Pacific NW College of Art as a nontraditional oil painter. She currently lives in Paonia, CO, where she has a working studio and gallery located above the Blue Sage Center for the Arts. Richardson’s dedication to her art has earned her numerous awards and grants, and her work has been both exhibited and collected widely throughout the United States.

 

PROJECT: Richardson will present a short video demonstrating her unique process of storytelling through the development of a large-scale oil painting created during her time as a fellowship recipient.

 

Andrew Roberts-Gray

A Carbondale, CO, resident, artist Andrew Roberts-Gray explores the manufacturing processes of computer CPUs as a guide in referencing a number of discreet yet expansive cultural traditions, including science fiction and the historical trajectory of the painted landscape. He has participated in art mentoring and collaborative endeavors with other artists, and is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver, CO.

 

PROJECT: Roberts-Gray is presenting a twelve-minute multimedia art performance piece that features digital projections, dance, and music played by internationally acclaimed violinist Mintze Wu.

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The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions international contemporary art. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture,and society.

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Elmgreen & Dragset: It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, November 16, 2018–May 19, 2019; Zombies: Pay Attention!, December 21, 2018–May 12, 2019; Nina Katchadourian: Twitchers and Cheaters, January 12–June 16, 2019; Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is., January 12–June 9, 2019; Gabriel Rico: The Discipline of the Cave, March 9–June 16, 2019.

 

Walter Price: We pass like ships in the night, May 28–October 6, 2019; Etel Adnan: Each day is a whole world, May 28–October 6, 2019; Erika Verzutti: Venus Yogini, June 7–October 6, 2019; Oscar Tuazon: Fire Worship, June 7–December 1, 2019; Rashid Johnson, July 4–November 3, 2019; John Armleder, July 4–October 27, 2019

 

 

AAM ADMISSION IS FREE courtesy of Amy and John Phelan

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