Eric Aho

Aho puts the sublime back in nature, suggesting its abstract structure without denying its concrete fullness."

He adds, "Aho regenerates abstraction by returning to its roots in the boundless generativity of nature, and with that gives us a fresh aesthetic consciousness of it.

In the winter of 2016, the Hood Museum of Art presented Eric Aho: Ice Cuts curated by Katherine W.

Ice Cuts also brought praise from Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe, who wrote: "Aho’s paintings enact an answer to mysterious, counterintuitive questions.

The dynamic between black water and white ice is also a correlative — natural, not forced or contrived — of the much-masticated tension in 20th-century art between abstract and representational imagery, between the real and the reproduced."

Eric Aho's "Ice Cuts" series of paintings installed at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth (2016). Photo by Alison Palizzolo.
Eric Aho's "Ice Cuts" series of paintings installed at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth (2016). Photo by Alison Palizzolo.
Eric Aho's "Ice Cuts" series of paintings installed at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth (2016). Photo by Alison Palizzolo.
Eric Aho's "Ice Cuts" series of paintings installed at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth (2016). Photo by Alison Palizzolo.