PATRON is proud to announce our participation in the second annual Aspen Art Fair, held at the historic Hotel Jerome. Since 2015, PATRON’s conceptually grounded, artist-centric program has fostered artists who consistently are among those leading critical conversations in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Celebrating how artists continually return to the stories, songs, and narratives of the past, our presentation includes a selection of new works in painting, paper, sculpture, and ceramic by Lindsay Adams, Bethany Collins, Caroline Kent, and Noé Martínez. 

For both Bethany Collins and Noé Martínez, stories of the past provide rich content by which to understand the present. In her ongoing Greek Tragedies series, Collins compares translations of epic poems such as Homer’s The Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid, to enact the unfixed nature of language. Martínez’s practice is materially informed by the artist’s relationship to ancestral texts, oral narratives, and visual histories of the Huastec people of central Mexico. The series of ceramic sculptures presented here are themselves contemporary iterations of pre-conquest pottery.

Lindsay Adams and Caroline Kent extend this understanding of a shared past, by enacting how our senses play a sincere role in memory, creativity, and the physical act of making. Drawing on literary references, or mid-century jazz standards as titles and entry points into her intimate gestural paintings on canvas and paper, Lindsay Adams includes these voices of the past, and narrators of her own environment rise to the surface. Holding space for the imaginative leap from the past to present to future, Kent enacts how the body “thinks” through physical interaction with materials and processes. Her intuitively composed spaces on Belgian linen and wooden inlay set the stage for possible, illusive, encounters.



LINDSAY ADAMS (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL and a BA from University of Richmond, VA.

BETHANY COLLINS (b. 1984 Montgomery, AL) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Collins received an MFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA and a BA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. 

CAROLINE KENT (b. 1975, Sterling, IL) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She received an MFA from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN and a BA from Illinois State University in Normal, IL.

NOÉ MARTÍNEZ (b. 1986 Michoacan, MX) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. He is a visual artist and filmmaker who holds a degree from the La EscuelaNacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, (La Esmeralda) in México City, México.