Anderson Ranch Arts Center celebrates 40 years of the Visiting Artist Program

Snowmass Village’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center has announced a robust series of programs celebrating 40 years of the Visiting Artist Program with a dedicated gallery exhibition and spring lecture series.

GALLERY EXHIBITION: Mark / Image / Object

On Display: Now-Apr 10, 2025

Anderson Ranch Arts Center is celebrating 40 years of the Visiting Artist program with an exhibition of work by some of the leading artists who have spent time in the Ranch studios. This retrospective exhibition honors the diversity, innovation, and enduring impact of the artists who have contributed to our creative community. Through a curated selection of works spanning various media and disciplines, Mark / Image / Object examines how visiting artists have found the time to explore, question, and evolve their artistic practice. By looking back on these years of exchange and collaboration, the exhibition invites current and future artists to engage with these legacies, reminding us that artistic innovation often thrives with a visit to the studios at Anderson Ranch.

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Participating artists include: Sama Alshaibi, Paul Anthony-Smith, Jess T. Dugan, Andrea Gill, John Gill, Brad Kahlhamer, Brad Miller, Abe Morell, Catherine Opie, Yana Payusova, Calida Rawles, Paul Sepuya, Leslie Stefanson and Melanie Yazzie.

All works on display in the Patton-Malott Gallery are for sale. View the pricing and additional artwork details at https://privateviews.artlogic.net/2/5531a36032b50e78704a69/.

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Visiting artist spring lecture series

The Visiting Artists program began in 1980 and is a core component of the Anderson Ranch experience, bringing artists of all disciplines to the campus. The program is an opportunity that affords artists the time and space to complete projects within their area of expertise and to explore new work. Visiting artists contribute to the Ranch community with free lectures, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream. 

Nacho Carbonell

FREE LECTURE: Feb. 20, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting Artist Nacho Carbonell will be at Anderson Ranch from Feb. 10-21, 2025. Immediately following the lecture will be a tour of Carbonell’s studio and refreshments. Carbonell is known for his tactile approach to sculpture, which plays with textures, experimental techniques, and natural materials. His approach is unique, seeing objects as “living organisms” that come alive and surprise you with their behavior. For Carbonell, forming a relationship with his work is integral — he creates objects with his hands to impart his personality to them.

Jasmine Wahi

FREE LECTURE: Feb, 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting critic Jasmine Wahi will be at Anderson Ranch from Feb. 25-28, 2025. Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2023, Wahl was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exemplary social impact work. In 2020, PES, Jasmine became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, while simultaneously Co-Directing Project for Empty Space.

Masako Miki

FREE LECTURE: March 13, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting artist Masako Miki will be at Anderson Ranch from March 10-17, 2025. Miki is the recipient of the 2024 Aspen Art Fair Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist Prize. As a multimedia artist, Miki navigates diverse mediums, including textile sculpture, watercolor, and outdoor public installations to explore the intersection of mythology, folklore, and contemporary social issues. Miki has exhibited her immersive felt sculptural installations and watercolor works on paper in the US, and internationally.

Noelle Choy

FREE LECTURE: March 20, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting artist Noelle Choy will be at Anderson Ranch from March 18-28, 2025. Choy’s work lives mostly as performative objects and videos to seek counter-narratives in cultural mythmaking and the phenomenon of getting big inside our bodies. Often working in collaboration, she uses improvised methods and materials to distort biographies, thinking about reenactment and the celebration in closeness. She’s interested in the impossible, such as in intergenerational time travel or peeling an orange.

Bari Ziperstein

FREE LECTURE: March 27, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting artist Bari Ziperstein will be at Anderson Ranch from March 24-April 18, 2025. Ziperstein is an artist based in Los Angeles. Working in mixed media sculpture, Ziperstein’s primary focus is in ceramics. Her plural and fluid practice include discrete objects, large-scale installation, site-specific public sculpture, and her line of functional ceramics, BZIPPY. 

Lisa Kereszi

FREE LECTURE: April 2, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting critic Lisa Kereszi, who will be at Anderson Ranch from April 1-4, 2025. Kereszi is a photographer originally from outside Philadelphia whose work, often about fantasy in public spaces, is in the collections of the Met, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and others. She is represented by Yancey Richardson in New York, where she had a 2019 solo show of photographs depicting illusionistic surfaces and signage. 

Hugo McCloud

FREE LECTURE: April 17, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Visiting artist Hugo McCloud will be at Anderson Ranch from April 14-25, 2025. McCloud is one of the most prolific artists working today. In a career that has now spanned more than 15 years, McCloud’s work has quickly evolved through a process of restless experimentation, bringing inventiveness and fearlessness to the act of making. McCloud is engaged in an ongoing quest to elevate and master diverse methodologies and the array of subjects his work addresses. His preoccupation with finding beauty in the everyday is an abiding, unifying theme.