Aspen Art Museum

ArtCrush Experience: An evening of music and conversation with Jason Moran

Redeemable until Summer 2025

Estimate: $40,000–$100,000

About this Experience

An evening of music and conversation with Jason Moran hosted in the Upper East Side apartment of Roland Augustine, friend and co-owner of Luhring Augustine Gallery.

A casual, intimate concert by Jason followed by a chat over drinks and light snacks.

Up to six guests, redeemable until Summer 2025, on a mutually agreed upon date.

About the Artist

Jason Moran is one of this year’s ArtCrush Honorees, and will be presented with the Aspen Award for Art at the ArtCrush Gala on August 2nd.

He will be performing with his wife Alicia Hall Moran as part of ArtWeek in Aspen.

Jazz pianist, composer, and performance artist Jason Moran was born in Houston, TX in 1975 and earned a degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard. Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. He is the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center and Curator at the Park Avenue Armory. Moran currently teaches at the New England Conservatory.

Moran is deeply invested in reassessing and complicating the relationship between music and language, and his extensive efforts in composition, improvisation, and performance are all geared towards challenging the status quo while respecting the accomplishments of his predecessors. His activity stretches beyond the many recordings and performances with masters of the form including Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell, and the late Sam Rivers, and his work with his trio The Bandwagon (with drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Tarus Mateen) has resulted in a profound discography for Blue Note Records. The scope of Moran’s partnerships and music-making with venerated and iconic visual artists is extensive. He has collaborated with such major figures as Adrian Piper, Joan Jonas, Glenn Ligon, Stan Douglas, Adam Pendleton, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker; commissioning institutions of Moran’s work include the Walker Art Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dia Art Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harlem Stage, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

How to Bid

All lots will be on view at the Aspen Art Museum from July 17 through August 3.

Bidding on this work takes place at the ArtCrush gala on Friday, August 2nd, at 8pm MT. Absentee and telephone bidding available.

Please contact bid@aspenartmuseum.org for more information, including a condition report.

In the Live Auction, there is no Buyer’s Premium and the difference between the mid-estimate and the winning bid is a tax deductible donation to the museum.

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