3 posts tagged “aaron nather”

Soot Covered Reverie

GARDENfresh is pleased to present David Lowman, Aaron Nather and Michael Pajon three artists whose otherworldly spirit images tread a winding path through torment and joy, despair and love, the cherished and the abject.

David Lowman's recent work highlights perceived natures of god and self.  “God’s First Blowjob” served as the gateway to the series, as did prevailing themes of grappling with ultimate power, personal dualities, the life force of sexuality, and humanized imagery of god.  Aaron Nather’s current work shows an awkward beauty lurking beneath the surface of beings who struggle with elemental forces in their dreams and nightmares. Their faces express the bittersweet wonder of being alive and wide-awake in a savage, alien, and sadly beautiful universe. Michael deploys a range of images from The Standard American collages that merely hint at the dark side of glossy Americana to the series of Narrative Works. Rural mythic landscapes that display a humanity deprived of inhibition, lawless and chaotic. In these scenes, mobs of frightened angry people mete out violence on solitary victims alone in the woods.

Project Space: PST “Osculum Infame.”
“Osculum Infame” invites questions as to the darker mechanics of the creative imagination, its role in the achievement of “justified true belief,” and the necessity of duplicity for self-knowledge. It’s in these subjects that we find the answer to the age-old question: “On what do our lives depend?” - PST is an acronym for post/send/tell, the most common forms of communication in massively multiplayer online gaming environments. PST makes art of and about role-playing and video games.

Soot Covered Reverie

Bridge Art Fair Chicago 07
Originally uploaded by GARDENfresh.

Please join us at the GARDENfresh booth for the Bridge Art Fair Chicago. The GF booth is #04 near the front of the hall. GARDENfresh will be exhibiting work by the following artists Aaron Nather, Lisa Kuppinger, David Lowman, Trish Grantham, Chika Ito, Brian Sorg, Brandon Sorg, Jeremiah Ketner, Cammi Climaco, Michael John Hofer, Andrew Rigsby, Alain Douglas Park, Elisa Harkins and Burtonwood & Holmes.

Bridge Art Fair Chicago is part of the Artropolis event a "city-wide celebration of arts and culture" organized by Art Chicago / Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. Entrance is $15 and admits you into all 5 shows (Bridge Art Fair, Art Chicago, The Artist Project, Intuit and the Antiques show.)

The Bridge opening reception is on Thursday 04/26 from 7 - 11pm and admission is FREE, there will be a cash bar and DJ music.

General Admission $15
27 + 28th April 11am - 7pm
29 + 30th April 11am - 6pm

Please come and support GARDENfresh and check out the wonderful, intense and provocative art by our artists.

www.gardenfresh.org

Lost/Found
Originally uploaded by Crickskipper.

Here's a sneak peak of art we're bringing to Bridge Art Fair next week, this piece is by Aaron Nather, we're thrilled to have Aaron's work at the fair, you can check out more of his work at www.crickskipper.com
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