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Material Space
Aspen
Aug 5–Sep 10, 2021August 5–September 10, 2021

601 East Hyman Ave, 2nd Floor
Aspen, Colorado
Featured artists and designers: Ron Arad, Aldo Bakker, McArthur Binion, Nacho Carbonell, Wendell Castle, Paul Cocksedge, Mary Corse, Vincenzo de Cotiis, Ingrid Donat, Johanna Grawunder, Roger Herman, Shirazeh Houshiary, Karl Lagerfeld, Liza Lou, David Nicolas, Rick Owens, Robert Stadler, and Charles Trevelyan.
Material Space, which will open the first week of August to coincide with Aspen Art Museum’s annual Artcrush, will foreground a group of artists whose practices engage with the influence of minimalism and an exploration of process. Lehmann Maupin will include works from pioneering artist McArthur Binion who alongside his peers, was committed to expanding notions of abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s—a period of artistic exploration and exchange that expanded the then-dominant understanding of artmaking and impacted the discourse of abstraction to this day. Binion’s work will be placed in dialogue with historical and recent works of artists who have similarly honed their material and continued to expand the minimalist tradition, including Mary Corse, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Liza Lou. Carpenters Workshop Gallery will feature several artists who aim to move beyond functionality in their art practices to investigate the intersection of art and design. One can see this with Rick Owens, who will be showing his signature monochromatic pieces that feature a contrasting palette of black and white. Owens’ minimalist vision comes through in his monumental works created in a singular aesthetic, using subtle and rare materials such as Carrara marble and alabaster transformed into stark, geometric forms. His pieces are more sculptural than functional, placing materiality at the forefront.



McArthur Binion
History: Of: Application: One, 1978

McArthur Binion
Modern:Ancient:Brown (Ovals), 2021
Artist
Untitled (Copper Grid), 1984
Aaron Wexler
Untitled, 1990
Aaron Wexler
Untitled, 1987

Liza Lou
Honey Magenta | Divide, 2012-2014

Liza Lou
Nightsong (Lovers), 2019

Do Ho Suh
Exit Series: Light Bulbs, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2016

Nari Ward
Breathing Bars Vertical, 2020

Nari Ward
Constructive intent Constructive possession, 2009

Teresita Fernández
Golden (View 3), 2013

Teresita Fernández
Rise and Fall #19, 2017
Erwin Wurm
House I, 2011

McArthur Binion
Modern:Ancient:Brown, 2021

McArthur Binion
Self:Portrait, 2025
Artist
Untitled, 2022

Angel Otero
Untitled, 2012

Barry McGee
Untitled, 2021

Barry McGee
Untitled, 2021



