Christine Aaron
Christine Aaron is a conceptual and material focused artist whose work is exhibited nationally and internationally. She utilizes printmaking, wax, wood, metal and paper to create work investigating memory and the fragility of human connection. Aaron has received artist grants from ArtsWestchester/NYSCA, Surface Design Association and a residency and grant from Vermont Studio Center. She has received awards in printmaking and mixed media in exhibits at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Pen and Brush Gallery (NYC) and Silvermine Arts Center (CT). She has presented talks at The International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA in 2016, 2017 and 2019. Aaron was invited to present her work at The New York Print Club in 2019.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Exhibition venues include a solo exhibit at California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, CA, and juried and curated exhibitions at The Hunterdon Museum (PA), Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA), CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, (Ireland), Fyns Grafiske (Denmark), Westchester Community College (Valhalla, NY), Castle Hill Gallery, College of New Rochelle, Iona College Gallery (both New Rochelle, NY), Silvermine Arts Center (New Canaan, CT) and Mamaroneck Artists Guild (Larchmont, NY). Aaron holds a BS from Cornell University and a Masters in Social Work from Hunter College. She lives and maintains a studio in Westchester County, New York.
My work investigates memory, time and the fragility of human connection. Found wood, shattered mirror and hand dyed paper become vehicles for content. The history of these materials, and the traces of process that remain in the completed work speak to the way in which humans hold the physical, mental and emotional marks of personal experience. Mirror shards pierce wood; wood is scarred, drilled through; paper is burned, inscribed, dipped in wax, and spills from wood crevices. Burning, used throughout history to destroy, purify, obliterate and sanctify, evokes absence and presence, shadow and light. Shadows appear as projections of physical existence, an evidence of presence. They emerge and are cast as the ephemeral marks of what is now absent, no longer material: the mark making of physical loss. The results are physical representations of what is remembered, what is held, lost, transformed and marked within.