Aaron Curry

Aaron Curry explores pattern, shape, and concepts found in the visual information that supports the cultural matrix, be it print advertisements, Tumblr, digital marketing, or contemporary art. His sculptures are made of cardboard, aluminum, or plywood and his installations encircle the viewer in digital patterns that summon the shapes of Joan Miro or Picasso, bringing to life punchy colors or textures, and folding time to merge fantasy and reality. He addresses “perceptual vertigo”—the way in which the digital overload of images can disorient the viewer. His figurative collages are inspired by the merging of Pop-based abstraction and classic psychedelia, and juxtapose the ways in which representation might be altered to literally or figuratively represent something as tangible as a paint drip. Curry convolutes the connotations of his materials, merging high and low associations in an attempt to uncover the “explosion of the formal possibilities inherent in the transition between the virtual and the real.”

Curry has exhibited at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, CAPC Musée Contemporain de Bordeaux, France, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, New Museum, New York,