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| Aaron Parazette at the Dallas Contemporary through December 4th chit chats with Aaron Parazette + John Pomara - Oct 25 // 6pm Now that the last show of glamour shots has faded away, the Dallas Contemporary is showing hard-edge painting master Aaron Parazette. From now until December 4th, we will be treated to his most recent paintings and a large-scale, site-specific wall painting. Houston-based artist Parazette is no stranger to the Dallas area. He has shown his work at Dunn and Brown (now Talley Dunn Gallery) for years. |
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| I have always enjoyed the craftsmanship Parazette is able to achieve with his hard-edge style. The work looks so flawless that you would swear a machine produced the images. There is something quite beautiful about that high graphic look created by the human hand. It goes without saying that I don’t think the work is painted freehand -- he uses some tools to make these incredibly crisp lines. Since I don't want to get into a very long diatribe on what constitutes a work done by the human hand, I will get back to Parazette. |
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| previous articles by Todd Camplin |
| Aaron Parazette, Color Key #24, acrylic on linen, 2011 |
| Aaron Parazette, Color Key #21, acrylic on linen, 2011 |
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| Being a text artist myself, I find Parazette's word paintings particularly interesting. Apparently he uses a formula to create these paintings. It would seem that picking surfer lingo as his subject matter, which seems out of place for a Houstonian to use, is his dispassionate way of exposing most of us into an unfamiliar sub-culture. Parazette's letters are shuffled on the canvas, which forces us to slowly decipher the message on canvas. He also outlines the letters with a thin line of color, which helps to highlight the words. The letters also overlap and weave in and out, which acts to break up the work into small abstract color fields. The simple shapes, letters, and words come together to form a complex composition. |
| Aaron Parazette, Color Key , acrylic on linen, 2011 |
| But words are not the story of this show; the Dallas Contemporary is exhibiting his expertly executes hard-edge abstractions. Though not to the extent of someone like Bridget Riley’s Op art, Parazette's abstract paintings do have movement, but I don’t think he is aiming for precise illusionistic effects. Instead, you see a nice balance of colors moving in an aggressive pattern. Parazette’s use of circle and shaped canvases breaks the traditional rectangle canvas and helps the pattern contrast with the sharp hard- edged angles of the painting. |
| Aaron Parazette, Color Key #23, acrylic on linen, 2011 |
