VIP Preview Brunch | Sunday, August 1, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Public Opening Reception | Sunday, August 1, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
General Admission | August 1 - 5, 2021, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm daily

Location
Aspen Ice Garden | 233 West Hyman Avenue, Aspen, CO 81611

PREVIEW CHECKLIST

ADAM BERIS
DEVIN FARRAND
HANNAH KNIGHT LEIGHTON
BRIAN WILLS
SARAH ZAPATA

OCHI is pleased to participate in Intersect Aspen Art Fair taking place August 1 – 5 at the Aspen Ice Garden in Aspen, CO. OCHI will present a group booth with works by Adam Beris, Devin Farrand, Hannah Knight Leighton, Sarah Zapata, and Brian Wills.

In this series of small paintings, called “tantrums,” Adam Beris utilizes paint straight out of the tube, giving the works an appealing three-dimensionality. Suspended patterns of color create the experience of an allusive but joyful puzzle. Beris, born in Milwaukee, WI, received a dual degree in Painting and Creative Writing from Kansas City Art Institute in 2009. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally including at Over the Influence, Los Angeles and Hong Kong (2021); Y53, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Fabien Castanier Gallery Los Angeles, CA (2017); The Late Show, Kansas City, MO (2011). Beris was also included in the exhibition Bounding Boundaries at the MCC Longview Cultural Center in Lee’s Summit, MO (2013).

Devin Farrand’s work pays homage to his childhood spent in Oregon among a family of skilled craftsmen. Using raw materials such as etched and sandblasted aluminum and steel plates, Farrand creates meticulously crafted unique, aesthetic objects. In contrast to the physical weight of his materials, his process generates reflective, light sensitive, dynamic surfaces that affect an atmospheric quality. Farrand (b.1986, Salem, OR) lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Mackay, Idaho. Recent solo exhibitions include Felled Forms, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Heft, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Blocks on Blocks, Good Weather Gallery, North Little Rock, AR (2015).

Hannah Knight Leighton’s current work focuses on the tension between traditional craft techniques, painting history, the aesthetics of casual consumerism, and the influence of digital technologies on contemporary perception. Beginning with digital drawings, Leighton uses a tufting gun to create large-scale abstract paintings of acrylic yarn on monk’s cloth. Leighton received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015 and an MFA from University of New Mexico in 2021. Leighton recently participated in the Green Olive Arts Residency program in Morocco and her work has been featured in New American Paintings. Leighton will have her first solo exhibition with Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, ID in August 2021.

Employing thread, paint, and occasionally polyurethane, Brian Wills creates work that emphasizes the notion that line and color are to be experienced instead of simply observed. One at a time individual strands of thread are laboriously wrapped around wood substrates, eventually creating surfaces that vibrate and shift depending on available light and a viewer’s motion approaching a work. This tension between the fragile and the fixed offers illusions of movement, curve, and dimension. Wills (b. 1970) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BA from Denison University, his MA from Harvard University, and JD from Harvard Law School. His work has been exhibited in numerous gallery exhibitions including TOTAH, New York, NY; Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA; Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID; and was included in Swells of Californian Light and Space Artists held simultaneously at Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures in New York. Wills work has been included in institutional exhibitions including the Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA. Wills' work is included in numerous public and private collections including The Jarl Mohn Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; The Estee Lauder Collection, New York, NY; and Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.

Sarah Zapata makes work with labor-intensive processes such as handweaving, rope coiling, latch hooking, and sewing by intersecting theories of gender and ethnicity with pre-colonial histories and techniques. Using meditative, mechanical means, Zapata’s sculptures and installations deal with the multiple facets of her complex identities: a Texan living in Brooklyn, a lesbian raised as an evangelical Christian, a first generation American of Latin American descent, a contemporary artist inspired by ancient civilizations, and an artist challenging the history of craft as “women’s work” within the realm of art. Recent institutional exhibitions include Museo MATE in Lima, Peru; Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; the New Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Art and Design, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art all located in New York; Boston University in Massachusetts; and LAXART in Los Angeles. Zapata’s work is currently on view in the groundbreaking exhibition Latinx Abstract at BRIC House in Brooklyn, NY.