Aspen ART AT THE NELL
Explore the hotel and you’ll find original abstract works of art by internationally recognized painters, sculptors and photographers. Our main restaurant, Element 47, was designed to include an important collection of contemporary Aspen art, in addition to other global artwork, as integral to the fine dining experience. And in many of our Holly Hunt-designed suites, original Aspen artworks play a central role in defining each room’s mood.In June of 2018, artist Paula Crown unveiled her sculpture, entitled Jokester, as part of her SOLO TOGETHER series of work. Through this piece, which is on display for the summer of 2018 on the Upper Gondola Plaza across from Ajax Tavern, Crown is challenging viewers to reevaluate the impacts of throwaway consumerism. It represents the most recent project in Aspen Skiing Company’s Art in Unexpected Places, a program that has placed art on our mountains, hotels, and lift tickets since 2005. Photos from Crown’s SOLO TOGETHER installation currently feature as Aspen Snowmass’s lift ticket art. To support the sustainability message of the SOLO TOGETHER project, Aspen Skiing Company and The Little Nell have eliminated the use of plastic straws and now provide biodegradable straws only upon request. Visit AspenSnowmass.com for more details.
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EXPLORING IDEAS THROUGH REPETITION AND BOREDOM
Michelle Grabner
Untitled, 2012. Silverpoint on panel.“A ‘conceptual’ label gives me objective distance from the language. For example, I consider my silverpoint work ‘paintings,’ because they explore painting’s purchase on flatness and spatial illusion. Besides, it is much more difficult to be a conceptual artist. All really good painters are.”
the meeting of art and technology
Paula Crown
Bomber (Side View), 2012. Inkjet on mirror polished stainless steel.
“I see something, it captures my attention, and then my brain sees it rolling out in many different media, a sort of rhythm and movement pulsing back and forth among different applications…”
using humor to signify meaning
Scott Reeder
Untitled, 2012. Enamel on canvas.“Humor is part of (my art) but probably absurdity is more what I like. It doesn’t have to be ‘ha ha,’ but it can be strange or beautiful; and interesting processes that move between images and pure abstraction.”
The unexpected physicality of paint
Angel Otero
Untitled SK - HH, 2012. Oil paint and oil paint skins collaged on canvas.“I am not really trying to tell stories at all. I know there are things that can cause you to read something into a painting, but I like people to see the process and see that as beautiful.”
analog imagery using digital media
Cameron Martin
Trees (Bracket) 2012. Acrylic on canvas.“I really want to continue to think about making paintings where the picture itself is the subject as much or more than what is depicted.”
meaningful absences
Philip Vanderhyden
Untitled (Self-Similar), 2012. Oil on burlap.“When people look at a monochrome painting, they put in their minds what they are supposed to be; but I make pictures and they are not just abstractions but they are totally images… I believe all great paintings are also physical things as well as images.”
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