ARISTOTLE FORRESTER
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Aristotle Forrester (B. 1993 Chicago, IL) is a black painter and printmaker, originally from the South Side of Chicago and currently based in New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2016, and his Master of Fine Art from Columbia University, New York. Forrester is a Neiman Fellow
Recent exhibitions include, such venues as Thierry Goldberg (New York), Frederic Snitzer (Miami), Storage Gallery (New York), M Fine Arts Galerie (Boston), the Inside Out Museum (Beijing), the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum (New York). His work can be found in the permanent collection of Harvard University (Boston) in 2022.
WORKS
Manifest, 2024
Oil, hand ground pigment, lock ash, beeswax, burlap, silk, hemp, herringbone cotton, marker collage on canvas
76 in x 139 in
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Forrester’s work unearths personal and historical evidence of racial injustice. Through deconstructing symbols such as the horseman, the flag, the mask and the fugitive, Forrester questions the racial constructs and power structures of intimidation that have defined his experience and that of so many other people of color living in America. By extending the traditions of quilting, collage, printmaking, pigment, and language, Forrester subverts the colonial pillars of visual culture and highlights the duality of imprisonment and freedom personified by these symbols. He presents his perspective on the human experience to viewers through the emotive power of pigment and gestural mark-making. Forrester creates these moments for viewers to stretch their subconscious, to push their understanding of imagery conjured through abstraction.
Trade Routes and Bloodlines, 2024
Oil, hand ground pigment, lock ash, beeswax, burlap, silk, hemp, herringbone cotton, marker collage on canvas
72 in x 67 in
Unbridled Blue, 2023
Oil, cyanotype, charcoal, pigment stick on canvas
16 x 32 in.
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Lone Rider, 2023
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 in.
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The Birth of Urban Reason, 2024
Oil, hand ground pigment, intaglio, lock ash, beeswax, burlap, silk, hemp, herringbone cotton, marker collage on canvas
42 x 37 in.
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