Aron Namenwirth | ‘The Autographic Image’

BRATTLEBORO — Brooklyn-based artist Aron Namenwirth will be featured in a new exhibition, ‘The Autographic Image,’ opening Saturday, November 3 at 118 Elliot, 118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. There will be a public reception beginning at 5:30 followed by a talk with the artist at 7:30. The show will also preview on Friday November 2 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm during the Vermont Jazz Center Emerging Artist Festival. The show will remain up through November 29th, 2018. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm or by appointment.

Detailed line drawings on old and recently salvaged paper mark a departure from the political and socially conscious images Namenwirth rendered through a technical process of digital pixelation. This current work delves into a highly personal art, where each element is touched, edges felt rather than masked and taped.

The inspiration for the work comes from closely watching trees as they grow, observing the landscape, their exterior bark and inner bark, finally inside to the growth rings. These observations are translated through a process of abstraction, drawing freehand in ink. “As the tree grows so do my drawings, everything that happens in the process becomes part of the finished work – the moment is accepted as artifact,” said Namenwirth.  

Namenwirth has exhibited at The Bronx Museum, Momenta, VertexList and Galapagos in New York and his “Video and Animations” have been screened at Diva in Miami. He also ran an art moving company that made the moving the art. The truck painted as a conceptual message board while using it as a gallery and performance space during art happenings in Soho and Chelsea.

This is Namenwirth’s first solo exhibition since 2008 at VertexList when he decided to step back from the socially oriented work he had been producing and began to study music and started a project growing trees from seed. It was only after planting trees all over New York and New England and becoming a regular performer on the New York experimental music scene that Aron returned to drawing. “When Aron first came to Vermont to perform, he planted some seedlings that have now grown into healthy saplings” said John Loggia, who curated the show in cooperation with Gallery Director Lisa Mendelsund. “His drawings are meditations on that process modulated by spontaneous variations inspired by improvised music.” 

For more info or to inquire about purchasing art, email  Anamenwirth@gmail.com.