Archived exhibition
February
15 - March 18, 2006
Aaron
Petersen |
Inhabited
Reception: February
18, 2006 3-5
PM
Artist Biography
Download Paintings That Open a
Window Into a Realm Unlike This One
Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle,
February 25, 2006*
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In his second exhibition with the Braunstein/Quay
Gallery, painter Aaron Petersen explores our bustling, chaotic,
technology driven culture. "I believe in the profound
role of color," says Petersen. "The marks
I make reference living in a contemporary urban environment. I
am intrigued by how individual parts stand alone, and how
the dynamics change when grouped together."
Petersen builds the atmospheric moods
and environments in his paintings on aluminum by allowing
translucent oil paint to pool and flow over the surface,
and intermingle with preceding layers. He works at the brink between control and chaos;
his paintings are built upon this balance.
When the environment in the under-painting
reaches Petersen's level of satisfaction, he then adds tightly
controlled brush strokes, marks, and colors to inhabit the
painting. Just as humans animate a city, color, composition,
paint, and scale glow and give life to the metal on which
the paintings reside.
Aaron Petersen is a graduate of the
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California.
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