Aaron Garber-Maikovska

Aaron Garber-Maikovska

BornNationalityBased In
1978AmericanLos Angeles
Biography

Aaron Garber-Maikovska works in large-scale abstract paintings, performance and video. He places the bright white boards on the floor and fills them with clusters of colour in oil, pastels, wax and raw pigments made by the artist himself. The huge scribbles, only seemingly random, propose complex and cryptic narratives that contemplate on the notions of identity, fatherhood, memory and communication. The intimate tangibility of the personal and his body runs across his practice: his performance works, which serve as a source material for his paintings, incorporate the kinetic elements of dance, rhythmic movement and spoken utterances. Garber-Maikovska places his performances in late-capitalist and neo-libreal settings of shopping centres, chain restaurants, parking lots, and repetitive suburban areas. The video documentation of his works echoes the performative turn of the 1960s and 1970s when conceptual art’s happenings were animating the art discourse. Garber-Maikovska’s “guerilla” performances are inspired by an intuitive process of intervention and narrative-constructing around the mysteries of reality. In both his performance and paintings, Garber-Maikovska explores the dimensions of what it means to be human, proclaiming, to put it in the artist’s words, “we are here, and we don’t know why.” Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Osos
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Osos, 2021
291.47 x 733.42 x 5.08cm
Windfall
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Windfall, 2021
291.47 x 489.58 x 5.08cm
Creston
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Creston, 2021
266.06 x 245.74 x 5.08cm
O'Donovan
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
O'Donovan, 2021
266.06 x 245.74 x 5.08cm
La Panza
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
La Panza, 2021
266.06 x 245.74 x 5.08cm
Feather
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Feather, 2021
205.1 x 205.1 x 5.08cm
Trinity
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Trinity, 2021
205.1 x 205.1 x 5.08cm
Owens
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Owens, 2021
205.1 x 205.1 x 5.08cm
Shasta
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Shasta, 2021
205.1 x 205.1 x 5.08cm
Blue Yellow Yellow Stack
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Blue Yellow Yellow Stack, 2021
124.16 x 90.8 x 4.44cm
Blue Lily
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Blue Lily, 2020
123.82 x 90.8 x 4.44cm
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Blue Present
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Blue Present, 2023
231.1 x 203.8cm
Mother Den
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Mother Den, 2021
123.82 x 90.47 x 4.44cm
Small Yellow House
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Small Yellow House, 2020
66.68 x 62.23cm
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