The Art Guide's Featured april 2008 gallery :: brickwalk gallery

Brick Walk Fine Art
860.233.1730
322 Park Rd., West Hartford, CT
Tue.-Sat. 10am-5pm, and by appointment.
brickwalk@sbcglobal.net
www.brickwalkfineart.com

Eric Aho, Outermost: Provincetown Paintings And Works On Paper

April 18th - May 31st, 2008
Opening Reception With The Artist: Friday April 18th, 5 - 8 pm

Of the recent group of paintings which comprise this exhibition. Cate Mcquaid, art critic for The Boston Globe, observes that "the dunes rise up on either side of Route 6 as you drive through Truro toward Provincetown, languid, undulating, and holding the sunlight as easily as if they were its source. Eric Aho, the Vermont painter who has so bracingly captured that state's green hills and blue-white ice, has come to Provincetown to paint the dunes, and nothing could be more fitting. His daring new works capture the wildness of the seashore here. Aho is a master of tone and texture. In "Truro Beach," his loose, broad brush strokes brawl into one another, evoking the turmoil of a cloud-filled sky and the force of surf hitting shore. Hurling this way and that, those strokes appear spontaneous and out of control, yet Aho is exacting with details. He interrupts this storm of paint with two still passages: the blue-black water and a calm patch of pink, almost iridescent sand in the middle of the painting. Between those two placid areas, water clashes with land, and the paint rises off the canvas in a thick impasto. Above, the sky roils in layers of color, mirroring the violence of shadow and light in the foreground."

 

Eric Aho

Truro Beach

oil on canvas

50 by 70 inches