The Aspen Art Fair 2024
July 29-August 2, 2024
For the first Aspen Art fair at the Jerome Hotel, NHG will reconstitute Jody Guralnick’s installation project from the Epicurean Passport weekend during the June Food and Wine festival. The project, comprised of a 6 x 32 foot backdrop or mural of the wildflowers of Aspen, with individual oil paintings affixed thereto, creates an environment of nature’s glow and peace.
Along with the mural and its enveloping atmosphere the gallery focuses on “The Rapture of the Tiny” for its stand including small scale jewel-like paintings and sculpture by a number of gallery artists, who have made works for this event. Among them:
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein whose new pastel palette watercolors evoke the color of springtime flowers
Jimi Kabela, whose small paintings incorporate bold gesture and color while embedding African fabrics as accents of energy and color in the thick impasto paint
Don Eddy’s new works from a series he calls WDAS, standing for Windows, Doors and Stairs, are about light as it enters into and plays on the architectural details of an historic Washington building
Timothy Cummings has created a series of new portrait miniatures in antique frames completely invented, the first of which is a little red-head with devil horns
Nancy Koenigsberg has created a “little park” an intimate square, in which she sews and weaves coated copper wire, building up layers of color to create a 2 ½-inch-deep object. The material is shiny and dull, fragile, and industrial strength.
In addition to the “Rapture of the Tiny” the gallery will show two of Nathalia Edenmont’s new photographs of eggs, one of which was in the inaugural announcement of the Jerome Fair a few months ago.
The artist has written about her new series:
“It feels bizarre and unreal that for so many years when I was much younger, and still fertile I was worrying that my eggs were not good enough to create a beautiful life. I was holding on to the hope that the universe would send me the possibility to be a mother. I have never given up that hope, but with time I just accepted the absence of this possibility.
Now, from this deep absence in my life, a flow to create artworks with eggs bubbled up inside me. For me it is not just eggs. Each artwork with a single egg in the center, glowing in a bright light, is a portrait of a beautiful life, which I succeed to create now.”