Dennis Hollingsworth

Aaron in the Rapids

"Unstuck"

My good friend Aaron Parazette is getting ready for a show at Marlborough Gallery in New York that will open April 19th. He sent me a few images from his studio as he gathers steam for his upcoming show.

"Agro" and "Stud"

"Juice"

"Thuster".

Aaron has been working with studio assistants for the first time since he has had back surgery over the Winter holidays. He has been able to translate a very personal aesthetic from his hands to other hands, a difficult transition for any artist. Here they are, in this last pic with his daughter Joy rounding off the studio action team.

There are few people in the art world with which I enjoy talking to about art as much as I do with Aaron. Deeply considered, researched, nuanced, curious, funny... Aaron is my gold standard for this sort of thing. I called him up to talk about his recent work and our conversation ranged as it usually does. I took notes with an intention to report it here in this blog... but alas! You can catch a butterfly and pin it to a board for analysis and research. But what do you do when you are swinging a net in a swarm of them?

Ok then. I'll shoot a pic of the notes. It's a shadow of the experience, but that's better than constructing a Frankenstein-like fascimilie of the life of that particular conversation.