Material & Meaning
by Christine Aaron
A collection of works by Christine Aaron, installed in Gallery B
On view: March 24–May 9, 2025
Reception/Meet the Artist: April 3, 5:00–6:30 PM
About
Christine Aaron, an award-winning artist based in Larchmont, NY, constructs deeply evocative works that interrogate memory, personal history, and the fragility of time.
With a material-driven practice, she assembles an intricate lexicon of wax, found wood, burnt paper, and salvaged tea bags—each element steeped in its own quiet resonance.
Her process, as she describes it, is both "reparative" and "healing," a tactile meditation that anchors her in times of uncertainty.
Sifting through collected ephemera—birds' nests, rusted metal, vintage dress patterns, and delicate, tea-stained paper—she reclaims fragments of the past, layering and stitching them into intimate compositions.
The result is a body of work that feels at once deeply personal and universally poignant, a testament to resilience and reflection.
Aaron’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, drawing audiences into her contemplative, alchemic transformations of the discarded and the ephemeral.
In an era increasingly defined by flux, her art offers a quiet insistence on preservation—of material, of memory, of meaning
Artist Statement
“Puttering in my studio I sort through bags of collected ephemera. Objects that resonate, evoking memories of people, places, and experiences. Cocoons dyed with oak gall ink, tea and coffee, salvaged teabags from the dying. Birds’ nests, thorns, eggshells and vintage dress patterns and sheet music; browned and brittle with evocative discoloration reminiscent of watercolor. Empty weed pods, rusty metal pieces, burned scraps of paper. I layer and collage materials onto tiny tea bag canvases, then stitch and pierce with thread and thorns. They are daily meditations, composing and reclaiming memory and personal history brought into my current experience. It is reparative, healing and acts as a psychological and emotional anchor in tumultuous times. I find meaning through the making.”