Two new exhibitions at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen opened Thursday. “A Nod to Modernity” features two Denver-based artists who put a twist on the familiar themes of midcentury modernism. And four painters contributed to the second exhibition, “Intimate Appearances,” which explores relationships and connections through deeply personal portraits.
July 9 through August 29 Opening Reception: Friday, July 9, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Artists Noah Breuer, Alexandra Knox and Manda Remmen all look at the issues lurking behind capitalism labor, ownership and consumerism from different points of view. Breuer delves into family members lost in the Holocaust who ran a textile-printing business, Carl Breuer and Sons, until Nazis took it away from them in 1939 through the reproduction of textile designs from the C, B & S archives; Knox addresses the hardships of child-rearing with “Stockpile,” a sculpture of plaster milk bags, and “PunchCard,” a series mimicking time cards punched for the labor of caring for a newborn; and Remmen uses rearrangeable house-paint color chips named in fancy script to cast shade on the ridiculous commercial names of said colors.