Eric Aho “Threshold”

Eric Aho “Threshold”

DC Moore Gallery

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DC Moore Gallery presents Threshold, an exhibition of paintings by Eric Aho.

In this new series of paintings, Eric Aho explores the various “threshold” spaces between water, earth, sky, and our own physical presence in the landscape. Developed over the past two years and drawn from the artist’s explorations of forests and wetlands, Aho reconstructs and reinvents his observations, composing a visual language of natural forms, feelings, and remembrances.

The borders where natural elements meet are disrupted by Aho’s intricate mark-making. Recognizable space is clarified towards the top of many of the paintings, where stark pine trees cut across open patches of sky. Moving towards the bottom of his canvases, closer to the artist’s vantage point, forms become fluid and colors grow more vivid, even fantastical. Critic Andrew Shea writes, “Aho allows the eye to wander, and his collection of smaller glimpses propose a teeming whole, accumulating and collapsing along with the precarious landscapes they depict.”

With wild spaces undergoing rapid change and fragmentation, Aho’s work suggests there is a moral imperative to look closely at nature. In this regard, his paintings may serve as a valuable and necessary witness, measuring change at the scale of days, seasons, and life cycles of the successional forest through the material record of paint. We find the forest both at rest, as if in a state of meditative quiet, and also at a moment of resounding, emphatic life engaging all the senses.

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