Galerie Maximillan

 ASPEN’S GALERIE MAXIMILLIAN HOSTS THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM’S FREESTYLE PREVIEW EVENT

Identity mirror at Aspen Art Museum's Freestyle

A private preview exhibition and reception for the Aspen Art Museum’s winter fundraiser Freestyle will be held at Galerie Maximillian. The galerie is featuring a Portrait Exhibition with a special collection of work by artist Kathy Taslitz. The exhibition is entitled Let’s Face It: 27 Modern and Contemporary Portraits with original works by Lincoln Schatz, Richard Dupont, Kathy Taslitz, Chuck Close, Ryan McGinniss, Damien Hirst, Picasso, Miro, Matisse, Dubuffet and others. As part of this show, Taslitz’s Identity mirror will be exhibited alongside her sculptural furniture collection including functional design in limited editions.

In addition to being a part of the galerie’s preview exhibition, Kathy Taslitz is unveiling a new, purely sculptural work titled Exposed, Maquette. Exposed reflects the confrontation of raw reality and diverse life experience. The figure of the leaf–an iconic expression of nature and the life cycle that Taslitz uses repeatedly in her work–suggests not only its ability to soar independently but also its ultimate return to the earth. A human figure emerges out of the leaf, open to its surroundings, fluid, and vulnerable. The undulating surface has been intricately perforated, yielding open spaces of different sizes and shapes, connected but disparate.