{"id":42064,"date":"2025-07-28T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/42064\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:08:25","slug":"local-gallery-debuts-acclaimed-artists-one-woman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/42064\/","title":{"rendered":"Local gallery debuts acclaimed artist\u2019s one-woman show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/woods-atd-072325-01-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>A new exhibit featuring the work of artist Clare Woods is seen at Galerie Maximillian on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, in downtown Aspen.<br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<p>Galerie Maximillian, one of Aspen\u2019s oldest local galleries, is kicking off Art Week with internationally acclaimed British artist Clare Woods\u2019 one-woman show.<\/p>\n<p>The show, titled \u201cLines and Locating,\u201d will have its opening event Thursday, July 24, from 6 to 8 p.m., and run through Aug. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Woods is not a stranger to Galerie Maximillian, which has exhibited Woods\u2019 work over the past three years. This will be the gallery\u2019s first one-woman exhibition of her work, though, according to a press release. Woods has also exhibited works in London, Copenhagen, New York, and Los Angeles, in addition to art fairs including Art Basel, Frieze, The Armory, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoods utilizes the genre of still life and the classical trope of memento mori to explore the vulnerability of life, its fragile boundaries, and co-existing tensions,\u201d the press release states. <\/p>\n<p>Woods\u2019 new collages and prints depict cut flowers, sky, and mountains alongside chandeliers and still life images, a departure from her earlier work exploring the human body. Wilting flowers, dipping stems, and curling leaves are notable in Woods\u2019 new work, exploring \u201cthe ambiguous threat of every-day life, mediating between moments of beauty and mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHovering between figuration and abstraction, the works in\u00a0\u2018Lines and Locating\u2019\u00a0present us with both the familiar and the uncanny, the gentle and the sinister,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Woods\u2019 process is uniquely her own, incorporating a number of different steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exploration of the screen printing,\u00a0monoprinting,\u00a0and collage processes has afforded me the opportunity to deconstruct, reimagine, and reassemble imagery in a completely new way,\u201d Woods said in the release. \u201cWhile adhering to the composition and color palette of recent paintings, I have relished being able to occupy a compelling space between paint and print.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods describes her element of screen printing as \u201ccontrolled chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy accidents and a loss of control arising from the various mechanical printing processes contribute to the physical breakdown of the image and allow for a deceleration and fragmentation of the subject,\u201d the press release states. <\/p>\n<p>The gallery is\u00a0open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday,\u00a0or by appointment. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibit featuring the work of artist Clare Woods is seen at Galerie Maximillian on Tuesday, July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-42064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}