ASPEN, CO—On Friday, August 2, 2013, the Aspen
Art Museum hosted its ninth annual ArtCrush summer
benefit, raising $2.1 million to benefit the
Museum’s exhibition and educational programming. The
eleven-lot 2013 ArtCrush Live Auction of
contemporary art raised a total of $925,000, and the
76-lot Silent art Auction garnered an additional
$843,000 in support of the museum’s renowned
contemporary programming—record highs for the event
in both auction categories.
ArtCrush Aspen Award for Art honoree Teresita
Fernández was
in attendance as a new work she created especially
for this year’s gala sold for $220K—over twice its
$100K estimated value. Titled Blind
Land (Green Mirror), the precision-cut,
stainless steel, horizontal work was among the
highlights of the live auction, presided over for
the second consecutive year by ArtCrush
Sponsor Sotheby’s’ European
Senior International Specialist of Contemporary Art,
Oliver Barker. This year’s event marked
Sotheby’s’ seventh consecutive year as ArtCrush’s
Presenting Sponsor.
The other highlights of the evening’s
live auction were: Lorna
Simpson’s Ruby
and Black ($38K),
which will remain on view at the Museum through
September 22, as part of her current exhibition Lorna
Simpson: Works on Paper; Catherine
Opie’s Untitled
#2 ($52K); Rob
Pruitt’s Cocaine ($75K);Glenn
Kaino’s In
Search of a New Model [Tubastrea] ($70K); Ernesto
Neto’s Borbulhante ($65K); Liza
Lou’s Unclean ($60K); Shirin
Neshat’s Leah
[Masses], from
the Book
of Kings series ($40K); RETNA’s Drifting
on a Memory ($50K); Gabriel
Kuri’s Untitled
[17, 10, 10] ($75K);
and an Ellsworth
Kelly drawing
on paper titled Easter
Lily, which gaveled for $180,000.
The silent art
auction items included works by such esteemed
artists as Rita
Ackerman, Cory
Arcangel, Iwan Baan, Alexandre da Cunha, Thea
Djordjadze, Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon), Shannon Finley,
Kate Gilmore, Ian Kiaer, Josephine Meckseper, Jason
Middlebrook, Angel Otero, Roxy Paine, Erik Parker,
Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, David Shrigley, Yinka
Shonibare (MBE), Taryn Simon, Ricky Swallow, Hayley
Tompkins and
more.
AAM National Council member Amy
Phelan once
again Chaired the 2013 festivities. The main Friday
night event marked the culmination of the museum’s
three-day benefit, which hosts approximately 400 of
the world’s most influential art collectors, wine
connoisseurs, artists, gallery owners, museum
directors, curators, global business leaders, and
celebrities. ArtCrush 2013 event attendees included
such notables as AAM Board of Trustees
Vice-President and fashion-world icon Domenico
De Sole and
AAM board member Lance
Armstrong, 2013
ArtCrush sponsor Audi’s special guest, renowned
actress and hit television series Mad
Men star Jessica
Paré, and DJ duo The
Dolls: Mia Moretti and Margot—who were the
featured entertainment at AfterPartyCrush at
Belly Up, Aspen, just following the main event.
Leading up to the main ArtCrush gala
on Friday night, there were several major events. On
Wednesday, July 31,
the WineCrush event
took place at the home of ArtCrush Chair Amy Phelan
and Museum Board of Trustees Co-President John
Phelan. The evening began with glasses of Dom
Pérignon’slegendary champagne and featured a
special tasting of WineCrush
event sponsor Tenuta di Biserno’s rare vintages
guided by the evening’s special guest Lodovico
Antinori. The limited-attendance evening also
featured rare wine vintages and food pairings
presented by master sommeliers led by
Jay Fletcher, Executive Director of Fine Wine and
Master Sommelier for Southern Wine and Spirits.
On Thursday, August 1st,
there was a kickoff party sponsored by Casterline
| Goodman Gallery at
their Aspen location, and the official auction
preview took place at Richard
Edward’s Baldwin Gallery, also in Aspen.
Each year, ArtCrush
draws major art-world figures from around the globe.
2013 attendees included:
COLLECTORS & PATRONS
Rita & Jeffrey
Adler, Winter
Park, FLJill &
Jay Bernstein, New York
Barbara Bluhm-Kaul & Don Kaul,
Chicago
Eleanore & Domenico De Sole,
Hilton Head/Aspen
Frances Dittmer,
Aspen
Marcy & Leo Edelstein,
Aspen
Glenn and Amanda Furhman,
New York
Gabriela & Ramiro Garza,
Mexico City
Linda & Bob Gersh,
Los Angeles
Kitzia & Richard Goodman,
Chicago
Jan & Ronnie Greenberg, St.
Louis
Diane & Bruce T. Halle,
Scottsdale
Soledad & Bob Hurst,
Aspen
Allison & Warren Kanders,
Greenwich
Toby Devan Lewis,
Cleveland
George Lindemann,
Miami
Eugenio Lopez,
Mexico City
Nancy & Robert Magoon,
Aspen
Nicola & Jeff Marcus,
Palm Beach
Susan & Larry Marx, Aspen
Jane & Marc Nathanson,
Los Angeles
Stefan Edlis & Gael Neeson,
Chicago
Erin & Paul Pariser,
Greenwich
Amy & John Phelan,
New York | Aspen
Kelli & Allen Questrom,
Dallas
Nancy & Richard Rogers,
Dallas
Don & Mera Rubell,
Miami
Michelle & Jason Rubell,
Miami
Lisa & John Runyon,
Dallas
Cari & Michael Sacks, Chicago
Ali & Lew Sanders, Aspen
| New York
Pamela & Arthur Sanders,
Greenwich
June & Paul Schorr,
Nebraska | New York
Sue & Lester Smith, Houston
Jennifer & David Stockman,
Connecticut
Gayle & Paul Stoffel,
Dallas
Mary & Harold Zlot,
Los Angeles
GALLERISTS
Cristian Alexa, 303
Gallery
Matt Bangser, Blum
& Poe
Bethanie Brady, Paul
Kasmin Gallery
Cristopher Canizares,
Hauser & Wirth
David Castillo, David
Castillo Gallery
Donna Chu,
David Kordansky Gallery
Kristen Dodge,
DODGE gallery
Richard Edwards,
Baldwin Gallery
Molly Epstein,
Gladstone Gallery
Honor Fraser & Stavros Merjos,
Honor Fraser Gallery
Daniela Gareh & Sara Kay,
White Cube
Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn,
Salon 94
Kavi Gupta,
Kavi Gupta Gallery
Mike Homer, David
Kordansky Gallery
David Leiber, Sperone
Westwater
David Maupin,
Lehmann Maupin
Michelle Pobar, Cherry
and Martin Gallery
Esthella Provas,
Esthella Provas and Associates
Perry Rubenstein, Perry
Rubenstein Gallery
Courtney Treut, Anton
Kern Gallery
2013 ATTENDING ARTISTS
Whitney Bedford, Los
Angeles
Rosson Crow, Los
Angeles
Dzine,
Chicago
Teresita Fernández,
New York, 2013 Aspen Award for Art
Honoree
Caio Fonseca,
New York
Natalie Frank, New
York
Nate Lowman, New
York
Randy Polumbo, New
York
Kenny Scharf,
New York | Los Angeles
Guests enjoyed the Aspen Art Museum's compelling
contemporary art exhibitions, both on view through
September 22, 2013: Lorna
Simpson: Works on Paper highlights
a recent body of work—including a series of works
created during her tenure as the Aspen Art Museum’s
2013 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in
Residence—that explores the complex relationship
between the photographic archive and processes of
self-fashioning; and, the first solo presentation in
a North American institution of the work of artist Hayley
Tompkins, whose paintings and painted objects
emphasize the energy found in small things and
economical gestures.
For more information visit
www.aspenartmuseum.org/event/artcrush-2013
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