How's Your Aspen? ♦︎ ⌔ ♦︎ ⌔ ♦︎

How's Your Aspen? ♦︎ ⌔ ♦︎ ⌔ ♦︎

a brightly colored oil-painting depicting two tall flutes with champagne being poured, a skier placed on the curvature of a womans body, a white glove with playing cards, and a retro leather car dashboard with a man's hand on the wheel.

DIMENSIONS: 48(h) x 72(w)
MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
YEAR: 2017

In Simmons' oil tableau, "How's Your Aspen?", an antiquated automobile, depicted with unparalleled finesse, conjures reminiscences of bygone eras juxtaposed with additional vignettes redolent of 80s commercial print advertisements. The composition, imbued with a whimsical exuberance, distills transient instances of exultation, lavishness, and camaraderie. "How's Your Aspen?" incites reflection, eliciting ruminations on past epochs, enigmas, perseverance, and the age-old pursuit of transcendental delight. Through Simmons' adept execution and discerning thematic selections, she fashions a simultaneously playful and incisive tableau, accentuating the labyrinthine fabric of human odyssey and the interconnected dynamics of our shared nostalgic yearning.

  • Oil painting by artist Kristin Simmons highliting commericalism and pop-culture advertisements from the 1980's hung above a leather bed.
  • An oil painting showing 4 different 80's inspired scenes hung above a red chair.
  • Large oil painting of 1980s ads collaged together including champagne, car, cards, and naked women hanving on a wall above a guitary and record player console.
  • An oil painting collage of 1980s advertisements in vignettes with a grey chair hanging on a marble wall.
  • A realistic oil painting hannging above a table with chairs featuring 4 different vignettes - champagne being poured into 2 glasses, playing cards passed between 2 white gloves, a man skiing on a woman's body, and a red leather retro car dashboard.