The LA and NY galleries are closed to the public for installation. The NY gallery will reopen on Thurs, Sep 4, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 PM for Weather Report, a new exhibition of paintings by Shara Hughes. The LA gallery will reopen on Sat, Sep 13 at 10 AM with Sam Gilliam: Constructions in Color, 1978–1981. At 6 PM, Nightsong, a solo exhibition by Derek Fordjour, will open. Both LA shows will be on view until 10 PM on Sep 13.
Aaron Curry (b. 1972, San Antonio) makes sculptures and paintings whose relationship to modernism is productively fraught. Incorporating a wealth of elements from popular culture—science fiction, video games, cartoons—Curry has developed a body of work that is both a recognizable continuation of art historical narratives and a caustic, critical, and often hilarious take on the established order. In recent years he has produced a group of large-scale aluminum sculptures that upend the classical poise of Alexander Calder, foregrounding instead a surreal biomorphism and seemingly improvised compositional flair. These objects translate the hands-on immediacy of his earliest sculptures at a municipal scale, emphasizing the democratic fervor that animates his project. An ongoing collage of the lineages of Disney, Picasso, and Chicago Imagism, Curry’s work provides a funhouse-mirror vision of the future of the Western tradition.
Curry has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Ranch, Montauk, New York, NY (2022); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2017–2021); McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2019); STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore (2018); Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL (2018); Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (2014); CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2014); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY (2013); and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2012). Recent group exhibitions include New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2023); House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2023); Part 2: Au rendez-vous des amis: Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2021); and Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China (2018). His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; and SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; and Seattle Art Museum, WA. Curry lives and works in Los Angeles.
Aaron Curry
Blue Thing (Seated Figure), 2022
painted aluminum
94 3/8 x 61 x 59 1/2 inches
(239.7 x 154.9 x 151.1 cm)
Aaron Curry
Doomsday Guck Abstraction (Pink), 2021
acrylic gouache on canvas in artist's frame
40 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/8 inches
(102.9 x 87.6 x 7.9 cm)
Aaron Curry
Green Head, 2021
acrylic gouache, oil, and colored pencil on wood
22 5/8 x 15 1/2 x 14 inches
(57.5 x 39.4 x 35.6 cm)
Aaron Curry
New Wave Duo Duo and Galaxy Guck, 2018
collage, acrylic gouache, and tape in artist’s frame
27 1/2 x 42 inches
(69.9 x 106.7 cm)
framed:
35 x 48 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
(88.9 x 123.2 x 3.8 cm)
Aaron Curry
Cosmic Slop, 2015
acrylic gouache on canvas
84 x 60 x 2 inches
(213.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm)
framed:
85 x 60 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches
(215.9 x 154.6 x 6.4 cm)
Aaron Curry
Weird Dude Concept, 2013
painted aluminum
79 3/16 x 106 x 50 3/4 inches
(201.1 x 269.2 x 128.9 cm)
Aaron Curry
Dopesmoker, 2012
collage and gouache on board
49 x 73 inches
(124.5 x 185.4 cm)
Aaron Curry
An (Needle Mose-pinche cloths pins), 2011
ink and silkscreen on wood with painted aluminum base
overall: 105 x 49 x 26 1/2 inches
(266.7 x 124.5 x 67.3 cm)
sculpture: 96 x 49 x 26 1/2 inches
(243.8 x 124.5 x 67.3 cm)
base: 9 x 48 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
(22.9 x 123.2 x 57.2 cm)
Aaron Curry
Horned Head Trip (reclining), 2010
powder-coated aluminum
111 x 112 x 80 inches
(281.9 x 284.5 x 203.2 cm)
Aaron Curry
Invariant Mass (Hey Bulldog), 2009
painted wood, steel
72 x 34 x 44 inches
(182.9 x 86.4 x 111.8 cm)
Aaron Curry
Infinite Mask / Perpetual Mash-up (Pink), 2008
leaning element: painted cardboard, tape, resin and ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper
paintings:
32 1/2 x 25 inches
(82.6 x 63.5 cm)
leaning element:
59 x 41 inches
(149.9 x 104.1 cm)
Aaron Curry
Shack #6, 2006
collage
11 1/8 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches
(28.3 x 36.2 x 3.8 cm)