Aaron McIntosh @ Window (Re/production | Re/presentation)

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Aaron McIntosh @ Window (Re/production | Re/presentation)

July 15th, 2018 by fstop

Image: Aaron McIntosh, Road to Tennessee

Aaron McIntosh: Road to Tennessee
July 16 – October 26, 2018

Reception With the Artist + Sidewalk Art Talk July 26th, 2-3 pm

“Road to Tennessee is composed equally of a photographic image and a patchwork quilt. Such dualities find their way into my work from many angles. Flipping through a gay erotic magazine, the image of a man amid a woodland scene caught my eye and instantly reminded me of the shallow creek beds and wooded foothills of my idyllic childhood in rural Tennessee. In stark contrast, the nude man at the center of this scene confronts my adult sexuality. The image is complex for me and begs an intervention: the porno guy is cut away so I can be filled in. His absence leaves only the echo of landscape, and here I embed unfinished patchwork, both a marker of my traditional craft background and a symbol of my own pieced-together identity. Aptly named “Road to Tennessee”, this specific quilt pattern has a cage, or net-like appearance, which I cannot help but connect to my own feelings of being trapped in my personal journey to/from home.” (Aaron McIntosh)

Window (Re/production | Re/presentation)
54 Broadway, Asheville, NC

Location: Asheville, North Carolina, United States Type: Exhibition

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