Aaron McElroy: After Awake

Aaron McElroy (Born 1978) is an American Artist / Photographer currently based in Philadelphia, PA . His photographs have been exhibited in various Galleries, Museums across America and Europe, including: Horton Gallery, Ampersand Gallery, Chasm Gallery, FOAM Photography Museum, Nooderlicht, PS1 MOMA and Chelsea Art Museum. He has published 13 monographs and been in countless anthologies.

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After Wake is a collection of visual fragments & anonymous female subjects from the artist’s daily life. Separated from the minutia of McElroy’s lived reality, however, the photographs also allow for an endless drift of fictitious suggestion & voyeurism. After Wake can be a half-­‐alert morning recollection of disjointed dreams. Or it’s a catalog of contradictory eyewitness accounts. It may also be something like the outtakes from a B movie chronicling pleasure, grotesque beauty, infidelity, addiction, abuse & redemption. In short, After Wake is a collection of provoking photographs by McElory that eschews concept & meaning in favor of imagination & a stream of inchoate ideas.

 

 

 
After Wake
2013
Aaron McElroy6 x 8 in.
Perfect bound soft cover
Gilt foil stamped cover
94 pages
44 color photographs
Price – $ 28Designed & published by Ampersand
Printed & bound in Portland, OregonEdition of 100

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