Aaron Gilbert
NADA, Miami
2019
Lulu is very pleased to present a solo booth of the artist Aaron Gilbert. Drawing from his personal history as a lover, husband and father, Gilbert is known for creating symbolically and psychologically charged narratives which revolve around this relationships. Reflecting his own ethnic background, his unusual figuration builds upon Caribbean and Mexican traditions of painting which he synthesizes with more a traditionally western approach to the medium. the combination of his bright, yet moody palette and staged, self-aware subjects, whom he portrays with disarming honesty, make for a distinctly unsettling and oneiric atmosphere. And yet there is something heartbreackingly and fundamental human about what Gilbert depicts- his paintings are at once out of and totally of this world, reminding us how strange, difficult and wonderful it is to inhabit it.
Aaron Gilbert (b. 1979, Pennsylvania) lives and works in New York. Gilbert holds an MFA in painting from Yale, and a BFA in painting from RISD. He has exhibited his work at Lyles and King, New York, Deitch Projects, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, among others. He is a 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award recipient, and has been awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as the 2010 “Young American Painter of Distinction.” His work is currently at the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Residencies include 2013 Fountainhead Residency , 2012 Yaddo, 2008 LMCC Workspace Residency as well as the 2008 Affiliate Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome. In the fall of 2020, he will have a two-person show with Martin Wong at PPOW New York.