Downtown Aspen
Aspen's downtown core balances its Victorian commercial architecture with contemporary public art commissions that draw on the Aspen Art Museum's international connections and the city's long tradition of supporting serious artists. Cooper Avenue and Mill Street host the most visible murals — large-format works that hold their own against the dramatic Elk Mountains backdrop visible at every intersection.
Featured Artists
All artists →Derek Gores
Known for intricate layered collage portraits, Gores renders the Maroon Bells in shredded magazine and metallic foil transferred to plaster — catching the changing alpine light across different hours of the day on Cooper Avenue.
Carrie Ann Baade
Baade's richly symbolic figurative painting translates to large exterior surfaces with remarkable fidelity. "Elk Crossing" frames a Rocky Mountain elk herd in a tondo composition bordered by stylized columbine, Colorado's state flower.
Camille Rose Garcia
Los Angeles artist Camille Rose Garcia's gothic fairy-tale aesthetic — poisoned apples, decaying mansions, doe-eyed heroines — finds unexpected resonance in Aspen's Victorian streetscape. "Victorian Revival" populates the facade of an 1893 commercial building with Garcia's signature cast of melancholy figures amid decaying flowers and mountain flora.