AARON YOUNG, Trapped Under Ice (diptych), 2010

AARON YOUNG

Trapped Under Ice (diptych), 2010

Mixed media
Airbrush paint, rubber, engine oil on aluminum

243,8 x 243,8 cm overall ( 243,8 x 122 cm each panel)

This is one of the few pieces that are available from his series “burn outs”, they are done with motorbikes skidding on aluminum panels with different colors of layers of...

This is one of the few pieces that are available from his series “burn outs”, they are done with motorbikes skidding on aluminum panels with different colors of layers of paint. When the tires get hot as a result of giving gas and breaking at the same time, they become soft and the gummy gets stuck on the panels.

Aaron Young is best known for performance art works like Greeting Card (2007), in which a team of motorcycle riders performed intricate choreography atop a plywood surface covered in seven layers of fluorescent paint and two coats of black acrylic. The resulting panels, referencing Jackson Pollock’s Action painting and Robert Rauschenberg’s 1951 Automobile Tire Print, combine the gestural marks of revealed paint, tire burns, and skid marks. Young’s sculptures, such as spray-painted boulders and battered iron barricades recast in gold-plated cast steel, are similarly interested in the figures and imagery of rebel and urban culture.
http://staging.armoryonpark.org/season/detail/aaron-young-greeting-card