Aaron Wexler "Invisible Ghost"

Josee Bienvenu Gallery

poster for Aaron Wexler "Invisible Ghost"

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Aaron Wexler operates within a complex matrix of acrylic and paper collage on panel. The mat acrylic surfaces of his paintings are incised and peeled away to reveal playful dreamscapes of free association. Fractal and prismatic, his paintings are carefully constructed, the surfaces collaged with a myriad of cut shapes, a complex puzzle of figure and ground. His work synthesizes abstraction and figuration, physical and psychological space, optimism and anxiety. It is imbued with a fragile equilibrium of opposites. Aaron Wexler often uses the sense of a dreamscape as a way of annexing the language of abstraction and employs subtle opposites (guns and flowers, the organic and geometric) as a way of paraphrasing the language of the subconscious. His imagery is vaguely familiar and yet strangely enigmatic. While visually dexterous, Wexler’s work is also inescapably material and object-like. The collage technique is nuanced and layered, elusive and reductive. Layers are built up in order to subtract from the overall image and create voids in the landscape of the imagery. Other areas use graphic injections of colour to define positive and negative outlined shapes.

[Image: Aaron Wexler "Blink" (2008) acrylic and paper collage on panel 38 x 30 in.]

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from May 14, 2009 to June 20, 2009

Artist(s)

Aaron Wexler

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