Aron Hill
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.
Aron Hill
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.
David Burdeny Artifact
"After years of working with conventional perspective as a way to represent space, I was interested in an alternative method that was more sympathetic to the unexpected ways in which people adapted to and reconfigured these environments. Photographed in Tokyo and Kyoto during the fall of 2022, they are presented here as a catalogue of figure ground studies. Individual buildings have been digitally extracted, superfluous details removed and recomposed over a field of colour. They have become reverse architectural drawing in a way, more intimate, and closer in experience
In the context of my previous work, Artifact, is less about making a conventional image and more about addressing what we are seeing and how we see it. Buildings in Tokyo often stand isolated by scale, purpose, and aesthetics - indifferent to their surroundings but proud of where they are. Gas stations exist next to Temples, while old wooden houses sit between new concrete hotels. To take it all in, once is forced to see selectively, to mitigate what would otherwise be an overwhelming amount of information. However, the camera is less selective and I’ve always found the images I have made here mildly dissatisfying. Visually it was all much too much - I could see through the noise but the camera couldn’t - at least not if I continued to follow my own established conventions. These images are in response to that observation, which I hope can serve as a kind of visual self-inquiry into what a photograph is or should be".
David Burdeny
