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April Issue 2004
Hidell Brooks in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Eric Aho
Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is
pleased to announce their second solo exhibition for Eric Aho
on view through May 1, 2004.
Aho studied drawing and printmaking at the Central School for
Art & Design in London, England and went on to receive his
BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1988. He completed his
graduate work by a Fulbright Fellowship from 1991-1992 in Finland.
Aho received the John Koch Award for painting in 2000 from the
National Academy Museum in New York. He is also a recipient of
the very prestigious fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Aho lives and works in Saxtons River, VT.
Aho's recent paintings are abstracted and simplified representations of winter skies, field edges and buildings which revel in the uncertainty of natural forces and teeter between night and day; warm and cold; intimacy and distance. Aho states, "Painting in the landscape relies on stories, the history of the people, places and other paintings as much as it relies on interesting and compelling forms and light. It has to do with mixing observation and study with discovery and imagination. My encounters with people on site compel me to investigate new connections, wherever they may be, between my personal association with a place and the collective memory and history which is retained in the landscape and revealed throughout the process of painting."
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