Bio:
Aristotle Forrester is an abstract expressionist from the South Side of Chicago, born and raised in Hyde Park. He is currently based between Boston and Chicago. He creates large-scale landscape and figure-based oil paintings. He began making art when he was six years old, and started exhibiting his work at age 16. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2016. Alongside his tenure as a fine artist, Forrester has furthered fine art education and access through teaching color theory and studio practice to inner city students as well as private clients for seven years. He is now represented by galleries both in the US and internationally and has been building his list of collectors with a full time studio practice. He has most recently exhibited his work at venues such as M Fine Arts Galerie (Boston and Palm Beach), the Inside Out Museum (Beijing) and online via Singulart (Paris).
Artist Statement:
Aristotle Forrester’s work is a cross-section of his life experience— an exploration of the myths that crafted his early childhood, the memories of long journeys in nature, and more importantly, the connection to his dreams and images his subconscious supplements from real life experience. He has created these moments for viewers to stretch their own subconscious over, to meditate on the sublimations of imagery conjured through abstraction. As Forrester contemplates the corporeal form in the pictorial realm, his imagery illuminates the vast space comprising the human body, both internally and physically. Abstraction delineates the true forms of emotional energy within the body and the weight of that energy once exuded on the surrounding environment and other humans. This fabric of interaction, internal and external, is a large cohesive factor in Forrester’s figure-based abstracts. Musing the figurative deliberations of de Kooning, Basquiat and Schiele as well as myths depicted by Bosch and Whitten, Forrester re-amalgamates these historical pedigrees into a modern and multi-ethnic depiction of the human form.
-Aristotle Forrester