Artist Talk & Opening Reception at Struts Gallery

Friday, April 23rd, 2010, 5:30 pm

Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne Street, presents Aaron Weldon's echibition Nature of Descriptions opening Friday, April 23 through to May 8, 2010.

The artist Aaron Weldon will be giving a talk at the gallery at 5:30 pm with the Opening Reception commencing at 8:00 pm.

This exhibition seems at once happily accidental and thoughtfully contrived. In the gallery, vibrant paintings and the smell of fresh paint offset the nostalgia of yesterday’s images and 8mm film—a body of work that began with a photograph depicting a family-planning class at Tantallon Junior High School sometime in the early 1990s.

While his film hovers between theatre and documentary, exploring the idea of reenactment as real-time decoupage, his disparate means of applying paint confidently implies photography or collage. “I find that film and photography naturally involve specificity, whereas paint is better at generalizations,” he says. “My attempt is to create a setting where each medium can accentuate the others.”

The Struts exhibition of this touring show brings a large-scale drawing to Weldon’s series. “I wanted to make a work that would account for my time, making it visible and material, in a way that photographic media can’t do,” he says.

Weldon, who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and NSCAD University, has shown both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

All are invited to attend!