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Wade Aaron
Closing reception:
Sunday, September 12 | 2-4 PM | FREE
Gallery tour with Wade Aaron, Robin Mandel, and Lovid, followed by a discussion with the artists
Artist Statement:
There is knowledge. There is belief. And while knowledge might connote something a bit more justified by evidence and reason, they are essentially one and the same: models for anticipation of outcome regarding present and future realities in the world outside of the mind. In their brevity, knowledge and belief are necessarily incomplete. They are always simplified distillations of accumulated experience, personal or societal, which should be by its own continuous nature unbounded and infinite.
In spite of their deficiencies, knowledge and belief are still functional. Continuously improving, they work toward reconciliation of one's experiences with expectations thereof. A steady stream of corrective forces (often seemingly disruptive) contribute to the perceived instability in these models -- sometimes necessitating small changes in understanding -- sometimes demanding complete restructuring of everything one holds as real and true about a particular facet of existence.
The world slowly maps itself into the mind. In turn, the mind projects itself out onto the world. In the case of the artist, the projections may take the form of action or object, text or image. Sometimes esoteric and at worst unintelligible, they are nonetheless compulsory and somehow communicative as much as they are perplexing in their necessity for being.
Wade Aaron is one of six selectees from our open call for emerging artists, Step Up.
Step Up 2009 was made possible through the support of our members, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, Howard and Sandy Fromson, Greater Hartford Arts’ Council United Arts Campaign, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Travelers Foundation, Robinson and Nancy Grover, Gary E. West, National Endowment for the Arts, Lincoln Financial Group, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Nimoy Foundation, and the Ensworth Charitable Foundation.