Intersect Aspen 2023

August 1-4, 2023
Aspen Ice Garden
233 West Hyman Avenue
Aspen, CO

VIP PREVIEW:
Tuesday, August 1 / 10am–12pm (Brunch)
(VIP/All Access Pass only)

GENERAL ADMISSION:
Tuesday, August 1 / 12–5pm
Wednesday, August 2 / 11am–5pm (Conversations + Cocktails, 4–5pm)
Thursday, August 3 / 11am–7pm
Friday, August 4 / 11AM–4pm

Rachel Collier, Big Sky, 2022.

Skye Gallery Aspen is pleased to participate in Intersect Aspen. We will be presenting works by Rachel Collier, Spencer Hansen, Whitney Sharpe, and Madeleine Tonzi.

Find us in the Intersect Lounge (entrance located between booths A16 and B15).

RACHEL COLLIER

Rachel Collier is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the release of internal visual language held in the emotional body resulting in imagery that is radically uplifting, riding the line between the mysterious and the familiar. Her materials are activated by a meditative and repetitive process rooted in non-representational painterly tradition.

Rachel Collier has her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recent solo shows include HAIR+NAILS Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), the Nemeth Art Center (Park Rapids, MN), Saint Kate’s Arts Hotel (Milwaukee, WI). Recent group shows include: Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and Rochester Art Center (Rochester, MN). Residencies: The Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY (2021, 2022); Anderson Center Jerome Emerging Artist Residency and Fellowship, Red Wing MN (2022); Nido invitational residency and exhibition, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy (2022); and Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (2022). 

Spencer Hansen

Spencer Hansen graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 with a BFA in photography. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose imagination and intellect intertwine to create playful art, thoughtfully sourced and constructed. Inspired by the living world, he works primarily with natural materials, hand making art that is the antithesis of our disposable culture. In addition to Spencer Hansen Art, he is the co-founder and creative director of BLAMO.

Spencer resides primarily in Bali when not traveling for exhibitions or chasing snow.

Whitney Sharpe

Whitney Sharpe is an Oakland based ceramic artist. Utilizing clay as a conduit, Sharpe builds three dimensional forms to embody physical experience. Drawn to clay per its volatile yet mutable nature, her art practice explores the relational and ritual aspects of materiality by challenging the limitations of medium and skill. Sharpe’s relationship with clay has born an understanding of the medium as the art of impermanence. Clay is not consistent and as a result, Sharpe is in conversation with her medium, recognizing she has just as much control over it as it has over her. This conference is the foundation of Sharpe’s work. 

Madeleine Tonzi

Madeleine Tonzi is a Los Angeles based painter and muralist. Her work responds to the tensions and contradictions between the natural and built world, while exploring concepts of memory, place and the environment. Tonzi uses soft color palettes in contrast with organic and architectural forms that articulate an emotional response to such subject matter, with the intent on creating a calm space for the viewer to contemplate their own relationship to the ever-changing world around them.

Born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Madeleine attended California College of the Arts, where she received a BFA in Community Arts with a focus on studio art and screen printing. She lived in Oakland for fifteen years where she developed and honed her artistic practice, and has recently located to Los Angeles, where she works from her studio in Glendale. Madeleine is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary, and exhibits work at their three locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

Photo by Shaun Roberts, courtesy of Hashimoto Contemporary.