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.
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Aron Hill
CULTURICACID
May 7– June 18, 2022
What new possibilities arise when we learn to cross, to blur, to undermine, overflow the hierarchical binary oppositions we have been taught to believe in. Jamie Heckart
Art’s task was to “make the world strange,” to shock the dulled sensibility, to forge a new reality by fragmenting the old. In art as in social practices, rebellion against a constricting and spiritually destitute society required the earnest, even systematic flouting of traditional values and assumptions. The sacred, made bland and empty by centuries of pious convention, seemed better expressed through the profane and blasphemous. Elemental passion and sensation could best draw forth the aboriginal wellsprings of the creative spirit. Richard Tarnas
This project is the process in which I investigate and develop a desire to dissolve into a stranger, more inventive world. Much of what I have despised throughout my life originates from a culture where masculinized practices reign. That is not to say only by men do these practices reign but also the simplistic manifestations and representations of masculinity in society which, in my case, showed itself most evidently in religion and art. Such effort is made to retain certain traditional values and guard them from influence and any attempt at layering. This exhibition and text is about layering..
CULTURICACID: ‘CULT’ or religion’s obsession and missionary zeal in regards to control of the body is demonstrated through a conservative Christian approach to sexuality and prudishness of bodily activity. I use the notion of ‘god’ many times throughout as a stand-in for otherness and something essential. In this project I have used notions of bodily activity and the ‘URIC’ to help understand this masculine control, and ‘ACID’ as an agent that both destroys and cleans like fire.
