Aaron Michael Skolnick

Place: Erlanger

Born: 1989

Biography:

Aaron Michael Skolnick’s (b. 1989) paintings address the most human of moments literally and allegorically. Building on universal themes of intimacy, desire, and mortality, Skolnick’s work bears the mark of his own history. A means to investigate the most profound and complex of experiences, these paintings range from the most graphic of nudes to the most graceful of still lives. By nature, such visual intimacies serve also as symbols of intangible experience, revealing hidden memories, desires, and thrills. Uncomfortable moments of pure emotion, motivational quotes, and transformative portraits define Skolnick’s most recent work. Informed by Andy Kaufman’s absurdist performances and his audience’s equally intriguing reactions, he works in pursuit of assumptions and second-guessing. Aaron Michael Skolnick was born in 1989 in Erlanger, Kentucky. He received a BFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012. He is currently based in New York State. Previous solo exhibitions include Under the Eyes of a Dry Mountain at MARCH (New York, NY), Between Two Suns at MARCH (Taylor County, KY), Your Voice Lying Gently In My Ear at Institute 193 (1B) (New York, NY) and Feel It on Their Faith at Incident Report (Hudson, NY) in 2019, A Landscape that I Know at Fierman Gallery (New York, NY) in 2018, Running Where We Stand at Glacier Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) in 2016, and Pick Me Up and Turn Me Round’ at Institute 193 (Lexington, KY) in 2013. Skolnick has been included in exhibitions at Venus over Manhattan (New York, NY), New Discretions (Hudson, NY), scroll (New York, NY), September Gallery (Hudson, NY), United Artists Space (Los Angeles, CA), Atlanta Conte...