Aaron Gilbert
June 17, 2022 – September 17, 2022
Sant'Andrea de Scaphis
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This Friday, June 17, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis will open a show of two new epically scaled paintings by Aaron Gilbert. Coming from a long line of antecedents, Gilbert is a painter of our new unrelenting modern life, as lived by those at the margins. He is a painter of the mystical and the ordinary, of the spiritual hidden inside the everyday. His subjects possess a strength and resilient grace under pressure.
This Friday, June 17, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis will open a show of two new epically scaled paintings by Aaron Gilbert. Coming from a long line of antecedents, Gilbert is a painter of our new unrelenting modern life, as lived by those at the margins. He is a painter of the mystical and the ordinary, of the spiritual hidden inside the everyday. His subjects possess a strength and resilient grace under pressure.
“The bodies I depict are under the weight of capitalism. I want that force to be very pre-
sent. I want it to be as dominant in the work as it is in our lives. You have the presence
of these forces but then I’m interested in finding where we can access the power that
can circumvent the rules of the game.”
“The sacred is what I’m invested in. Deciphering how we access a power that transcends
all the material structure of this world. I would say that I operate on the idea that none
of us know how powerful we are. None of us know what we’re capable of doing or why
we’re here and, to me, the most interesting thing in being alive is trying to decipher that
and unlock it and be a transformative force in the world.”
“I like the moments in painting history that live on a bridge between two ways of
thinking, there’s these breaks of logic between Giotto for example and then Trecento,
Quattrocento. Like Fra Angelico, you’re still in this world of magic, but then you’re also
halfway into this world of logic and reason.”