Native sellers make a robust exhibiting at this 12 months’s Intersect Aspen honest (1-4 August), with 4 Colorado-based galleries collaborating among the many 31 exhibitors from throughout the nation. One of many areas making the longest journey to indicate on the Ice Backyard is the Palm Seashore, Florida-based gallery County, which may even have one of many honest’s solely solo stands: a bunch of current digital panorama work on anodised aluminium by the Los Angeles-based Web artwork pioneer Petra Cortright.
“We selected to exhibit a solo presentation as a result of we felt the energy of Petra’s panorama works garnered a extra in-depth viewing,” says Dalton Freed, the director of County.
The works vary from single-panel compositions to a big triptych and depict landscapes rendered in greyscale however punctuated by accumulations of pastel-hued flowers. “I like to go away some edges and artefacts, particularly digital artefacts,” Cortright has mentioned. “For it to be an fascinating construct of a world, and to maintain some sense of humanity, or the artist’s hand or contact, I’ve to go away these traces.” Every of the digital work is exclusive and priced between $60,000 to $160,000.
