Aaron Dysart

Born:

1975, Minneapolis, MN  USA

Currently resides :St. Paul, MN

Undergraduate School/year/degree:

University of Montana 1998 BFA-Sculpture

Graduate School/year/degree

University of Minnesota 2002 MFA-Sculpture

Selected Exhibitions:

Land Revisited, Phipps Center for The Arts, Hudson WI  2008

Sticks and Stones: Recent Sculpture by Aaron Dysart, Janet Wallace Fine Art Center Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul 2006

Closer In, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, Massachusetts 2004

Selected Collections:

Macalester College, St. Paul MN

University of Montana, Missoula MT

Selected Awards:

2007 FSP/Jerome Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park

Finalist Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship 2006

HD Smith Purchase Award 2001

Artist Statement:

In my recent work the natural is simplified: stripped or painted, the stable is made mobile, one material strains to be another. By changing an object’s use, nostalgia for the original form is created which brings understanding and hopefully yearning. The work is then both the new form, and a reminder of what it was in the past. Through this I wonder what exactly is natural.