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    First Presentation of Eric Aho's Work Opens at DC Moore Gallery
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    His work bridges diverse associations ranging from Courbet to deKooning to Turrell. Costello reveals, "The boreal fires that consume the canvas have an all-over quality that can make one think of Jackson Pollock, but they first burned into Aho’s imagination from a painting by Rembrandt, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1647), where a tiny camp fire illuminates a circle around the figures who hover in a dark, expansive wilderness." In earlier work, Aho focused on the landscape of his northern New England surroundings. Full Article at Art Knowledge News
    The boreal fires that consume the canvas have an all-over quality that can make one think of Jackson Pollock, but they first burned into Aho’s imagination from a painting by Rembrandt, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1647), where a tiny camp fire illuminates a circle around the figures who hover in a dark, expansive wilderness.
    SOURCE: Art Knowledge News 1 month ago
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First Presentation of Eric Aho's Work Opens at DC Moore Gallery
  1. With Aho, we confront reality not selectively, in discrete, familiar parts, or classical unities, but as sensation, in real time.... Consciousness is in a forest, finding its way, all smear and blur and shimmer. Perception is still happening in the viewing, which demands duration, for the painting is no...
    SOURCE: Art Knowledge News 1 month ago
  2. I respond to extremes and the tension between clarity and indistinctness, the literal and the suggested, between the knowable and the unknowable. I am curious about the line we are unable to cross either physically, intellectually, or imaginatively.
    SOURCE: Art Knowledge News 1 month ago
  3. The dynamism of these paintings aligns with their subject matter. Instead of offering abiding geological forms, as a stable theater for variations of light and season, Aho places us deep inside extreme, protean states—in a reality not just leafing and shedding, but burning and freezing.
    SOURCE: Art Knowledge News 1 month ago

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