Derek Aylward: Gone Fishing

Tennis players, animals, mystical creatures, cartoonish characters, chess pieces, and superheroes populate Derek Aylward’s (b. 1976, Boston, USA) dynamic and playful compositions. Raw and energetic, thoughtful and fragile, the compositions borderline collapse, a full glass placed too close to the edge of the table. Aylward manages this inherent tension with grace in his exuberant paintings that engage the viewer in an urgent and intuitive manner. The works reflect a conflicted and fragmented world that is hard to make sense of, but rather than to succumb to despair or apathy, the works cultivate the potential in chaos.

Kilde: Eighteen