Spencer Hansen

Anima

January 29 - April 10, 2022

PRESS RELEASE

Spencer Hansen is returning to Aspen to present Anima, his fourth solo show with Skye Gallery. Anima features new sculpture and photography by the Bali-based artist and is on view from January 29 – April 15 with an opening reception on January 29 from 7:00–9:00 pm.

Working primarily with a natural palette, metal, leather, wood, ceramic, bone and hair, Spencer’s art is the antithesis of our disposable culture. Spencer creates from a place of curiosity, eliminating the non-essential and focusing on intricate details drawing out characters with a delicate and encompassing precision.

His current work features wearable sculpture, light sculpture, masks and photography. His wearable sculptures open doors to different realities, his light sculptures offer another access point to enter his creative realm, the masks represent a symbol of change and his photographs act as a creation story, offering an interpretation of where and how his sculptures exist beyond the gallery walls.

Anima references, deconstructs, and recreates archetypal stories. Playing with contrasting elements to explore relationships and transformations Spencer invites us to navigate the polarity of dark and light, beauty and horror, emergence and withdrawal, secular and sacred, and the familiar and strange. Visible in his compositions are both the discord and harmony, the vulnerability and susceptibility that can and does exist within these oppositions.  He develops an intimate and relatable, yet otherworldly story, while still leaving space for the viewer to journey through their own experience of the imaginative landscapes.

Spencer Hansen graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.  He is an interdisciplinary artist whose imagination and intellect intertwine to create playful art thoughtfully sourced, designed and constructed. In addition to Spencer Hansen Art, which includes painting, sculpture, masks and photography, he is also the co-founder and creative director of Blamo Toys and Blamo Clothing. When he is not experimenting in his Bali workshop, he travels between his home state of Idaho, Orcas Island, Japan, California and Europe.