Building & Sons

Uri Aran (b.1977, Jerusalem, Israel) is best known for his wide-ranging oeuvre that playfully engages with themes of certainty and meaning-making. Aran establishes a rhythmic and poetic sensibility in his installations, exploring the way cultural tropes as well as elements from poetry, music, and childhood play, are transposed onto drawing as a form of discovery. Aran's drawings manifest a limitless curiosity that challenges the quest for the 'finished.' They are often self-referential, citing his exhibitions and containing recurring motifs, and yet they also unravel new meanings and figures. Aran's drawings consistently allow for open-ended interpretation depending on what we perceive and recognize in them. In Building & Sons, recurring motifs such as animals, musical scores, an open hand, and a building are referenced alongside and through abstract painterly marks. This drawing was part of Aran's exhibition, House, at Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, which loosely explored the architectural process from blueprint to building site to finished space through the "sincerity and imperfection of a children's performance."