ASPEN, COLO.- Since her emergence in the late 1970s, Sherrie Levine has utilized diverse mediums to challenge conventional assumptions around autonomy, originality, and agency. Alongside contemporaries such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince who referenced the iconography of film and advertising, Levine turned her attention instead to the history of art. Probing the ways in which identity is generated through our relationship to images and forms, Levine’s works reckon with both the potentials and impediments of artistic production in the postmodern era. This exhibition is the first extensive survey of the artist’s early work.

Sherrie Levine: 1977–1988 is curated by Scott Portnoy, Guest Curator.

Carol Rama: THE TONGUE, THE EYE, THE FOOT
June 6–September 28, 2025

Carol Rama: THE TONGUE, THE EYE, THE FOOT explores the human figure and its complex, psychological associations in the work of the celebrated Italian artist. Carol Rama created art for over seventy years, producing disparate bodies of work that reflect the turns of her own life and that of the zeitgeist. This focused exhibition centers on a singular theme: the fragmented body as a site of fantasy and resistance in Rama’s work from the 1930s to the 1970s. The show examines eroticism as an expressive throughline that pierces Rama’s practice in overt figurative scenes and abstract forms. While Rama’s work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe since her death, this presentation marks the artist’s first significant American museum exhibition since her ICA Boston exhibition carolrama, in 1998, and her New Museum retrospective, Antibodies, in 2017.

Carol Rama: THE TONGUE, THE EYE, THE FOOT is curated by Simone Krug, Curator.

Solange Pessoa: Pegar o sol com a mão (Catch the sun with your hand)
July 2–October 26, 2025

Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present a new exhibition by Solange Pessoa, a Brazilian artist renowned for her evocative and poetic works that contemplate and intersect nature, the human body, and the forces that shape existence. Her practice often delves into the realms of the organic and the metaphysical, with a focus on the materiality of life. For her exhibition in Aspen, Pessoa brings together four bodies of sculptural work made over the past five years in a site-responsive configuration that spans the rooftop and lower level of the Museum.

Solange Pessoa: Pegar o sol com a mão (Catch the sun with your hand) is curated by Claude Adjil, Curator-at-Large.

Anthea Hamilton: Cauliflower Sundial
From July 2, 2025

Presented in the museum’s commons, a newly commissioned sculpture by British artist Anthea Hamilton takes the form of a larger-than-life cauliflower. The artist’s humorous approach infuses a sense of theatricality into this mundane, perishable object, whose formal and textural qualities may recall a human brain, and indirectly cultural consumption. Long fascinated by pop aesthetics, Hamilton skillfully brings different styles, influences and visual registers to cohabit and contaminate one another in her works.

Anthea Hamilton is curated by Stella Bottai, Senior Curator at Large, with Simone Krug, Curator.