GESAMTKUNSTWERK
Interior architecture resists a simple definition. The department’s biennial exhibition at RISD took this complexity as its starting point, inviting visitors to walk backward through the design process and discover the traces of the designer embedded in even the smallest decisions.
Location
Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
Year
2026
Interior Archipelago
Scattered but close, the fragments of an archipelago exist in an unresolved duality, in conversation with each other, but designed to be isolated pieces afloat on a shared sea. Assimilating nature, Interior Archipelago is a layered metaphor of hope for our community, to be unavoidably individualized and divided, and simultaneously capable of finding balance and harmony through the in-between space.
Location
Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Thesis Show
Year
2025
No Straight Lines
“No Straight Lines, the second exhibition in Hexton Gallery’s ongoing exploration of Aspen’s historic impact on the visual arts, celebrates the curving and nonlinear pathways that lead renegade and established artists to this mountain enclave. The exhibition explores how chance and improvisation have shaped their work and formed this ever-evolving creative community in juxtaposition to the formal and rigid abstraction present in their artistic output.”
- Andrew Travers
Andrew Travers is an Aspen based journalist and Penner Manager of Educational Programs at The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
Location
Hexton Gallery
Year
2024
Silence, Like A Thought
In his second solo presentation at Hexton Gallery, Michael De Feo introduced a new collection of oil paintings that build upon his roots as a street artist while illuminating a new path.
Client
The Atlas Project
Year
2024
Outside In / Inside Out
In his first solo exhibition at Hexton Gallery, Southern California-based artist Phillip K. Smith III presented a new series of elusive, ephemeral wall sculptures that rest somewhere between traditional painting and the transformative power of colored light. Each sculpture changes at an imperceptible pace, from reflective surfaces to varying shades of color as determined by Smith’s elegantly designed orchestration. The dialogue between color and reflection has an unhinging effect, transporting the viewer from a known reality to one suspended within Colorado’s palpably thin air.
Location
Hexton Gallery
Year
2023
Visions of a Future Dream
Garrard’s multifaceted practice articulates a view of reality in which the border between the physical and ephemeral is porous and ever-shifting. Through subtle abstractions, she charts energetic and psychic states and their impact on and interaction with the physical plane. Referencing philosophical, scientific, and cultural theory with her own deep psychogenic exploration, she has developed a symbolic language and sacred geometry that intimately connects the internal with the cosmic and universal.
Location
Hexton Gallery
Year
2023
300 days of Sun
The exhibition title 300 Days of Sun is derived from Colorado’s consistent sunshine, as it is one of the only states to have 300 days of sun per year. While the sunlight is nearly constant, Colorado’s changing topography, altitude, and temperature bend light in different ways, so one’s perspective continually shifts depending on the location and time of year. This exhibition explores these changing points of view as a metaphor for the way in which contemporary artists look at light and harness it in their work.
Location
Hexton Gallery
Year
2023
Ripple
There is an ongoing force that has pulled some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th and 21st centuries to Aspen. Ever since Elizabeth and Walter Paepke founded the Aspen Institute and infused this town with cultural purpose, a steady stream of artists have visited and sought sanctuary here. This exhibition begins Hexton’s look at the ripple effect these early efforts had on the trajectory of Aspen’s own art history and its broader impact on the visual arts:
Location
Hexton Gallery
Year
2023