Aaron Wuerker – 2020 Brinton 101

Buffalo, Wyoming

Born 1970 Iowa

Education:

MFA Painting 1995,  YALE UNIVERSITY

BFA Painting 1992,  KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE

Public Collections:

NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM   Casper, WY

KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART & DESIGN   Kansas City, MO

“My work has always returned to a realist vision of the landscape, fueled by the austere beauty of common sights. Manufactured objects lend a geometry that celebrates the hard lines of the mesas and tepee buttes of the Western Plains where I live.

I try to focus on the way these mechanized forms mimic the horizon line or frame natural elements in the landscape. I like to think that there’s silent poetry in this interaction that defines an iconic American landscape.” Aaron Wuerker