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.
Rhys Douglas Farrell
Vacation in Isolation
For those who follow the work of Rhys Douglas Farrell, particularly his social media , you know that travel is a major influence for the young artist. Travel offers new patterns and palettes for his paintings. He often creates videos or photo montages of his travel photos alongside his paintings which echo the essence of those inspirational cities.
During Covid, when no one was traveling, Farrell was lucky enough to find a stack of travel and lifestyle magazines from the 1960s. ‘Sunset Magazine’ from 1965 offered a way to not only travel the world but in time as well. The designs, photography and advertisements from the 1960s’ encapsulated a nostalgic sense of well-being, good times and better days. Farrell went to work cutting up the magazines and began collaging. He used everything; the colour banners, the photographs, the advertisements and even the recipes. What he created is a suite of collages that instill all the grooviness, optimism and wonder of the 1960’s paired with Farrell’s indelible sense of colour and pattern.
