Reception/Talk: Aristotle Forrester: Hood Ornament

[CONTAINER]is thrilled to present Hood Ornament–an ambitious exhibition curated by New York curator Charles Moore. Moore is internationally known as an authority on artists from the African Diaspora. He is the author of The Black Market, a book about collecting artworks by Black artists. Aristotle Forrester is a rising star in the art world, and is an artist featured in Hood Ornament. Forrester hails from Chicago by way of Boston. Moore discovered Forrester in an exhibition at Columbia, and was immediately taken by his skilled abstractions. Forrester uses fabrics from his own family’s journey to weave in oil the tapestry of his compositions. Please join us for a festive reception welcoming him to Santa Fe and don’t miss the opportunity to hear him discuss his paintings and his artistic journey.

Aristotle Forrester’s work is a cross-section of his life experience— an exploration of the myths that crafted his early childhood, the memories of long journeys in nature, and more importantly, the connection to his dreams and images his subconscious supplements from real life experience. He has created these moments for viewers to stretch their own subconscious over, to meditate on the sublimations of imagery conjured through abstraction. As Forrester contemplates the corporeal form in the pictorial realm, his imagery illuminates the vast space comprising the human body, both internally and physically. Abstraction delineates the true forms of emotional energy within the body and the weight of that energy once exuded on the surrounding environment and other humans. This fabric of interaction, internal and external, is a large cohesive factor in Forrester’s figure-based abstracts. Musing the figurative deliberations of de Kooning, Basquiat and Schiele as well as myths depicted by Bosch and Whitten, Forrester re-amalgamates these historical pedigrees into a modern and multi-ethnic depiction of the human form. -Aristotle Forrester