Open Air: Artist Talk with Aaron Fowler

SEEING STARS: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art, featuring multi-media artist Aaron Fowler, "creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials sourced from his local surroundings." Hear and learn more about Fowler and his work in the conversation-style interview with curator Dexter Wimberly during July's Open Air.

This program was livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Through intuitive layering of castoff furniture, oil and acrylic paint, and collaged elements including iridescent CDs, water bottles, LED lights, sneakers, and plastic bags, Fowler meticulously constructs hybrid tableaux infused with a sense of raw urgency.

Fowler received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2014 and BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. He was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014 and was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2015. Fowler has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including shows at TOTAH, Saatchi Gallery, SCAD Museum of Art, The Rubell Family Collection, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design (solo), Diane Rosenstein Gallery (solo), and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In May of 2018, Fowler will present a window installation at the New Museum in New York, NY. He lives and works in Harlem, Los Angeles and St. Louis.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.