REVIEW; Concrete ideas frame Aho's wispy impermanence

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: May 6, 2007| Author: MARY LOUISE SCHUMACHER | Copyright information

The world itself seems to bend a little in the hands of landscape artist Eric Aho, whose work is on view at the Tory Folliard Gallery.

The loose chunks of ice may be breaking up over dark water and the snowy earth beyond may be going soft with the sun in "January Floes," but Aho countermands all of this by bending the scene almost imperceptibly, like the curvature of the Earth, giving it a taut and unnervingly dramatic feel.

"Floes," not unlike the tradition of panorama painting,...

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