Mountain Living:A Texas family creates a Colorado retreat with not-so-serious sophistication By Laura Beausire-December 2019 /  by Heidi Jung

Dining chairs by EuroCraft surround a family-sized table, with a Plus pendant by AlexAllen Studio above, and “Roots” by Heidi Jung adorning the wall. A Belle pendant light, by David Trubridge, hangs in the neighboring hearth room.

Dining chairs by EuroCraft surround a family-sized table, with a Plus pendant by AlexAllen Studio above, and “Roots” by Heidi Jung adorning the wall. A Belle pendant light, by David Trubridge, hangs in the neighboring hearth room.

Fortunately, some folks just refuse to accept defeat. When the East Texas-based owners of this splendid Colorado getaway missed the chance to buy a different place in Avon’s Mountain Star community (“It was the most beautiful home we’ve ever seen,” the homeowner recalls), they might have simply given up.

But instead, they went to work and enlisted the exact same team who had built that place—architect, contractor and interior designer—to reunite and create another home just for their own family.

“We called it the dream team,” the homeowner explains, “and we said, we’ll just hire them.” So, the capable, local crew—consisting of architect Brian Judge, founding principal of Vail’s Judge + Associates; Viele Construction; and interior designer Dana Hugo, of j&o studio—came back together to tackle the new project on a nearby site overlooking Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch.

Denver Westword: Colorado and New Mexico Artists Interpret Nature at Havu, Michael Warren MICHAEL PAGLIA | OCTOBER 2, 2019 /  by Heidi Jung

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Since the cave painters, artists have been responding to natural forms. Why has this inspiration been so persistent? One easy explanation is that nature is all around us. But another would be how
malleable this approach can be, ranging from photographic representations to
completely abstract work, with every incremental in between.

Two solos interpreting
nature are now on view at Michael Warren Contemporary. Denver artist Heidi Jung fills the
entire set of front spaces with signature compositions in the elegant New Work by Heidi Jung. Born and raised in the foothills, Jung was intrigued early on by the natural environment around her
home. At college in Denver, she began her studies as a photographer but
switched to a focus on drawing. That was a little over twenty years ago, but
interestingly, you can still see the photographic aesthetic in her drawings
today. To a limited extent, they're reminiscent of photographs — in particular
pinhole photos, because of their often murky grounds as well as the illusions
of transparency in places.

Jung spent the better part of a year creating this new body
of work, sparked by a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London back in January. The drawings are
mostly oversized renderings of plants and flowers done in sumi ink and charcoal
on sheets of Mylar laid flat on wooden panels, and fixed with an inviable
sealant. This approach to presentation is markedly different from the typical
way that drawings are shown, which is behind glass and framed; the unorthodox
tactic allows Jung’s drawings to function as substitutes for painting, seen
unframed and without glass.

Michael Paglia | October 2, 2019 | 8:15am