Aaron Jackson Bowman

In both natural and artificial forms, shaping nearly all reaches of the human experience―from geographical borders to the phenomena of the cosmos, from civil infrastructure to electricity and the internet, from stock exchanges to mathematics, from music and dance to penmanship and needlework, from parades to rockets, from architecture to tree roots, from the construction of our bodies to the chronology of our lives―the line is everywhere, always. 

​In the beginning, mankind created the line; and creativity has since depended on it as a foundational primary. The line is a cartographer, an exhibitionist, a shapeshifter. The line is a malleable god; and it prevails as one of the purest forms of mark-making.

In Aaron's work, the line has been adopted, exploited, and is the most conspicuous part of the art. The gestural wandering of the lines (direct reproductions of drawings and sketches and doodles) are moderated by the measured arrangement of color, and together, the paintings become a pairing of misbehavior and control; they become an enactment of us.

Aaron Jackson Bowman lives and works in New York City.