Aiden Kirkegaard | Stay Right Here

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Aiden Kirkegaard, “Trying to Make Things Fit,” no date

acrylic on shaped canvas, 36 x 48" (courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 25 from noon - 4 PM. The artist will be in attendance.

THIS Gallery is excited to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver-based painter Aiden Kirkegaard.

In the exhibition Stay Right Here, painting becomes an artistic mode through which Aiden Kirkegaard accesses personal memories and imagines alternative realities. In Kirkegaard’s practice, her physical studio space becomes a dwelling place for dreaming. In large-scale shaped canvases, imagery of doorways and windows from Aiden’s previous homes function as a place of origin in the work. 

Memories, even those unremembered, line the walls of the spaces we grew up in, they are embedded and woven into its architecture. This imagery is used as a space to hold and embrace playful mark-making and colour application. While their reference to home architecture is rooted in real spaces, the paintings are also imaginary. Paint is scraped, poured, canvases cut and collaged, all representing moments spoken and movements made in domestic spaces. 

This collection of work examines how the painted mark traces memory, these paintings become a vessel that holds on to what is remembered while giving way to the plasticity of those memories.