Marc Aronson
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Bibliography: Periodicals
→ 1997 New American Paintings, juried exhibitions in print, Number 10
→ 1975 Arts Magazine, Noel Frackman
Bibliography: Catalogs
→ 1986 The Embellishment of the Statue of Liberty, New York / Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:
→ 2009 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
→ 1974 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
→ 2022 CVG Gallery, Bremerton, WA, CVG Show
→ 2021 Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA, 10 x 10 x 10 Show
→ 2018 Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, 6 x 6 Show
→ 2018 Fusion Art online exhibition, “4th Annual Colorful Abstractions Art Exhibition”
→ 2018 The Art of Planetary Science, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
→ 2017 London Pop Up Art Fair, Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
→ 2012 80 WSE, New York University, New York, NY
→ 2009 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
→ 2008 Chung Ang University, Three Person Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
→ 2007 Naomi Silva Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
→ 2000 National Competition Finalists’ Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
→ 1998 Staten Island Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences, Staten Island, NY
→ 1995 Small Works Exhibition, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
→ 1992 America 500, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
→ 1990 Island Introductions, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
→ 1985 Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan, organized by Koren-Sha Co.
→ 1980 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
→ 1978 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
→ 1974 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY
→ 1971 Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, WA
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→ 2018 Marquis Who’s Who Top Artists, Lifetime Achievement Award
→ 2004 Marquis Who’s Who in America 2005
→ 1999 Marquis Who’s Who in America 2000
→ 1998 Marquis Who’s Who in the East 1999–2000
→ 1980 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
→ 1976 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
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Marc Aronson was born in the Pacific Northwest, where his interaction with the beauty and mutability of the land was expressed in the ever-changing and diaphanous quality of the pervasive fog, vegetation, rock, and water, punctuated by bonfires and their smoke. One world drifted into another, and on the encouragement of a painting professor at Western Washington University, he relocated to New York's SoHo neighborhood where he began his art career in earnest, accumulating new layers of understanding from the multifaceted cultural and historical perspectives of everyone with whom he interacted.
He received his PhD from NYU in 2004, part of the work for which included several summers painting and research in Venice, Italy, where he recognized that the union of cultural and natural history was preserved very literally on its walls. These walls became the main inspiration for much of his work. Over several decades, he had solo exhibitions at Warren Benedek Gallery and O. K. Harris, before moving back to the Seattle area in 2014. Since then, he has shown extensively on the West Coast
"Rephrasing"
My paintings rely on the process of redoing an image, destroying and restoring, or the “rephrasing” of a painting. This rephrasing produces a work which is rife with references of the history of its own making. A comparison might be Rome. Like a palimpsest, Rome exhibits the nuances of the history of its making. Rome exposes its own references to its past history where ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance Rome are still visible.
What all this adds up to is not only the look of aging and the revelation of the making or history of the work, but through the layers of paint an internal light is produced. It is this imagined light that is my memories of a particular place.
