The Aspen Art Museum's second Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence is internationally renowned, New York-based contemporary artist Peter Coffin, whose artistic practice embraces numerous media, including video and sound installation, sculpture, and photography. His artwork often playfully addresses explorations of both natural and manmade phenomena, paranormal and phenomenological events.

Coffin's work during his AAM Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence focuses on an artistic project based on the nesting habits of the Bowerbird - a species native to Australia and New Guinea - the male of which collects and arranges blue colored objects around its nest to attract potential mates. For the project, Coffin constructed a human-scale nest, beginning with a blue 1985 Toyaota Land Cruiser that he spent his residency driving around the Roaring Fork Valley collecting blue objects. The project is both additive and interactive. Visitors to the museum are invited to add their own items to the nest (assuming that they are blue), as well as spend time in the nest.

Also featured within the exhibition are Coffin's Colby posters series - all eighty of which are installed in a horizontal band mimicking a psychedelic sunset around the museum gallery.

Established in 2008, the Aspen Art Museum's Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence program furthers the museum's goal of engaging the larger community with contemporary art.