Aaron Zulpo
July 19th – August 31st, 2012

308at156 Project Artspace is delighted to present our first-ever single-medium exhibition, a collection of new paintings by Aaron Zulpo. 

This selection of meticulously painted Genre Works on canvas conflates experiences of intimacy and exclusion.  Initially, the exhibition addresses the approach that the artist has taken towards the depiction of landscape. Living in a city where we co-exist in such close proximity, many can relate to the “rear window” views of buildings across streets and back alleys. Carefully organized narratives are compartmentalized through multiple window frames in a familiar take on the cityscape. Zulpo’s use of repetition throughout these pieces lends a cinematographic element to the work as well, in which simple descriptions of conventional life play out independently within the same scene.

We have become accustomed to ignoring the subtle actions of our neighbors as any acknowledgment becomes invasive or taboo. Here the audience is invited to become the voyeur without consequence, and become engaged by the narratives of seemingly unrelated events. Through this attention, we infer motive and consequence within the mundane. And just as in real life, even though these characters are so close to one another, they are completely unaware of the actions of their neighbors. It is the visitor’s witness to these events in a single edifice that actually creates interconnectedness where there is none. 

Aaron Zulpo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  This is his first solo show.