Aron Hill - CULTURICACID

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Aron Hill, "Dark Sided Archway into a Quiet Place with Sun," 2022

acrylic ink on raw prepared canvas, 72” x 108”

Opening Reception, Saturday, May 7th from 2 to 5 pm.

CULTURICACID will be an installation exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and text. Meant to be experienced, more like theatre but where the audience is also a performer. Aron Hill utilizes minimalism to maximum effect in an effort to release his work from the burden and constraints of traditional masculinity and assumptions. 

“Art’s task was to “make the world strange,” to shock the dulled sensibility, to forge a new reality by fragmenting the old.” -  Richard Tarnas

Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation-based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text-based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.