Aspen.com: A 101 Guide to Aspen Art Galleries
Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by admin in Showcase
March 2009 – Aspen.com: A 101 Guide to Aspen Art Galleries
Aspen is spiked with sensory overload. The region boasts a breathtaking panorama of majestic mountains, beautiful people, a cloudless cerulean sky, fresh air, and irresistible culinary flavors. The gorgeous scenery and alpine spirit inspires a delightful visual feast, provoking the age-old transcendental question Aristotle and Plato couldn’t quite agree on: does life imitate art or does art imitate life?
Artistic soul-searching and personal ecstasy is highly encouraged in quirky mountain towns like Aspen. For art lovers and collectors, Aspen boasts a treasure trove of funky galleries and unique art boutiques. Whether you’re searching for an eye-catching sculpture, a conversation-starting wall piece, or a genuine modern masterpiece, Aspen has a gallery catering to most sophisticated tastes and distinguished styles. Shoppers will notice most art galleries in Aspen have the moniker “fine” attached to their name, meaning one thing: they are not cheap. Many established and world-renowned artists retreat from West Hollywood or New York’s Chelsea and Soho to experience the surreal transformative energy of the Rocky Mountains: a type of new age, artistic oneness with nature. Like other well-known artistic enclaves in the American West – Sedona, Santa Fe, Telluride, and Taos – the sunlight and shadows in the Roaring Fork Valley dance on snowy peaks of the Elk Range and red rock buttes like a ballerina gracefully chasseing to the allegro orchestral crescendos in Swan Lake.
