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.
Viewing Room
Brian Flynn
Who is Bridie?
Until October 12th
5 - 8 pm
Brian Flynn: Who is Bridie?
If people make places, what happens to the bonds that shape our identity and sustain community, when social fabrics are fractured by unexpected upheavals or migration?
Referencing the truism that most peoples, or their antecedents, have faced conflict, Brian Flynn’s new series of paintings Who is Bridie? depicts both familial rupture and fresh growth, heralding lost pasts and future
presents that distill the positive from pain.
With a studio practice that recalibrates human vulnerability, Flynn mines tension and turmoil emanating from his family’s fight for independence during the Troubles, aka Northern Ireland’s civil war. Trading on both personal and universal elements of conflicted humanity, Flynn’s shadowy and enigmatic figures evoke emotive qualities that offer resolve, mortal fibre, and enduring contemplation.
- Dick Averns, curator
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