DC MOORE GALLERY - Eric Aho

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Artist: Eric Aho
Exhibition Title: Inflection Point
Exhibition Dates: Jan 5 – Feb 4, 2017
Gallery Link: http://www.dcmooregallery.com/exhibit...

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Inflection Point, an exhibition of two ongoing bodies of work by Eric Aho, spanning the years 2000 to 2016. On view together for the first time, Aho’s Ice Cut and Mountains series explore the tensions between history, memory, and concepts of beauty through the artist’s luminous depictions of winter. Aho’s fascination with the season and the ephemeral qualities of its two primary elements—snow and ice—has been a central preoccupation of the artist for more than twenty years. Together the series investigate the contrasting extremes between interior and exterior worlds, both psychological and physical—their simultaneous moments of rupture and confluence.

The Ice Cut series takes avantos as their subject matter. An avanto is a traditional Finnish hole cut into the surface of a frozen lake, through which one is meant to plunge after the intense heat of a sauna. The artist himself has been cutting avantos and then painting their dark recesses and uneven, iridescent contours each winter for the past decade.

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