Aaron Johnson “¡Eso Si Que Es!”
Arts + Leisure
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For his first project at Arts+Leisure, Aaron Johnson presents ¡Eso Si Que Es! (S.O.C.K.S) - roughly translated, “It is what it is.” ¡Eso Si Que Es! focuses exclusively on Aaron Johnson’s sock paintings, and opens on the same day that Pisockophilia closes at Stux + Haller Gallery. We thank Stux + Haller Gallery for their cooperation on this special project.
The exhibition features two very large sock paintings alongside a series of small sock paintings. All of these works teeter the line between abstraction and figuration. Wild and wooly sock creatures emerge out of an exploration in painterly formalism of the sock as ready-made, battered and mangled impasto. An important element of the sock paintings is the collective involvement of the sock donors. All of these socks were collected in the mail, through calls put out on facebook, in exchange for small drawings - a gift exchange. The works are dependent upon the contribution of old socks from the sock donors, and in that fact, the dynamic of the studio process becomes less closed and more collective.
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Schedule
from March 21, 2015 to April 19, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-21 from 19:00 to 22:00