About The Artist
My paintings rely on the process of redoing an image, destroying and restoring, or the rephrasing of a painting. This rephrasing produces a work which is rife with references of the history of its own making. A palimpsest, a place exhibits the nuances of the history of its making. This adds up to ...
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Marc Aronson
About The Artist
My paintings rely on the process of redoing an image, destroying and restoring, or the rephrasing of a painting. This rephrasing produces a work which is rife with references of the history of its own making. A palimpsest, a place exhibits the nuances of the history of its making. This adds up to not only the look of aging and the revelation of the making or history of the work, but through the layers of paint an internal light is produced. It is this light that is my memories of a place
Marc Aronson was born in the Pacific Northwest, where his interaction with the beauty and mutability of the land was expressed in the ever-changing and diaphanous quality of the pervasive fog, vegetation, rock, and water, punctuated by bonfires and their smoke. One world drifted into another, and on the encouragement of a painting professor at Western Washington University, he relocated to New York's SoHo neighborhood where he began his art career in earnest, accumulating new layers of understanding from the multifaceted cultural and historical perspectives of everyone with whom he interacted. He received his PhD from NYU in 2004, part of the work for which included several summers painting and research in Venice, Italy, where he recognized that the union of cultural and natural history was preserved very literally on its walls. These walls became the main inspiration for much of his work. Over several decades, he had solo exhibitions at Warren Benedek Gallery and O. K. Harris, before moving back to the Seattle area in 2014. Since then, he has shown extensively on the West Coast
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