Art House 310 First Friday – Aida Bell & Aaron Jackson Bowman

Opening Reception | First Friday September 3rd, 2021 | 6-10pm

This event is free to attend and open to the public. Show hangs through September 19th, 2021.

Art House 310 is located at 310 S. Laura. Two blocks SE of Douglas & Washington in downtown Wichita.

AIDA BELL is a woman of science and art, she was born in Africa, lived a great part of her life in Paris, France, and more than twenty years all over the US, mainly NY and AZ.

Over the years, l developed unique sculpted artworks using many different but complex techniques aiming to depict beauty through a combination of colors, textures, a touch of gold or silver with always underlying meanings.

My show will be called “Silhouettes” by Aida Bell a creative way of expressing beauty and emotions through graceful shapes and portraits.

See more of Aida’s work online at http://www.aidabellart.com on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aidabellart and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aidabellart/

AARON JACKSON BOWMAN STATEMENT: “Outline” An element that governs, that organizes, that artificially and naturally shapes nearly all reaches of the human experience―from geographical phenomenon to national and city borders, to physical infrastructure, to electronic connectivity, to music, to dance, and to parades, to architecture and to the construction of our bodies, and (not absent of the chronology of our own living timelines) to the four dimensions we meander within―the line has been adopted, exploited and is the most conspicuous part of the work.

The line―the framework for the art―prevails as one of the oldest and purest forms of mark-making. Relying heavily upon both the circumscriptions and the gestural wanderings of linework, the paintings become a celebration of scribble, with many of the works being composed by a single, continuous line. In conjunction with an almost paint-by-number application of color and texture, the pictures—contrived of doodles—are childlike, yet attempt to simultaneously exhibit an air of technical tightness. The predecessors of the actual paintings―an accumulation of sketches―are occasionally created with a specific image in mind, but many are not predetermined and are instead birthed by the swift impromptu movement of a pencil on paper. These sketches, in all cases, are not subliminal in nature; rather they are a conscious act of drawing.

With no intentions of being esoteric or fraught with deep-seated riddles, the process of creation nevertheless concludes with a manufacture that may embody some underlying meaning(s).  Perhaps the works are haphazardly navigating between the manifesto of metamodernism and the creed of art for art’s sake―between meaning and unmeaning. And of the latter, it may be impossible to dodge an altogether vacancy in meaning, as art, as an import of feeling, as a symbolic device, as an exhibitionist to an audience, will struggle to keep quiet no matter how hard it tries. Regardless, what is most important is that whatever narrative shall associate itself with the picture being offered, it must be the consumer who has authored that narrative, not the work’s creator.

See more of Aaron’s work online at www.aaronjacksonbowman.com and on Instagram: instagram.com/aaronjacksonbowman 

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As the CDC relaxes the mask recommendations for fully vaccinated individuals, we ask that anyone entering Art House 310 use your best moral judgement on masks. We will continue to have masks on hand as well as hand sanitizer. We do ask that individuals who are not fully vaccinated continue to wear a mask when entering Art House 310. We follow CDC recommendations on masking.

– All events at Art House 310 are subject to change.
– Hand sanitizer will be on site for use.
– Art House 310 will disinfect the public areas before and after any events.
– There is no public restroom at Art House 310.
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