April 8 – November 19
Townhome · 2025Austin, Texas
Exposure~7 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
Austin, Texas — Weather Paintings
Turning weather into form.
The work begins with a choice of place. The environment does the rest. Each location becomes a collaborator: its moisture, heat, the salt or dryness of its air, the quality of its light on a cloudy day versus a clear one. These forces translate themselves directly onto the surface. Rust is the pigment. The tarp is the canvas. What comes back to the studio is an artifact created by the atmosphere itself. A surface that holds a stretch of time of a place.
Rust on tarp · 2019 – 2025
Works
Each piece is named for the dates it was exposed and the place it was created. The date beneath every work marks that span across a single year. Some took most of a year; others, only days.
June 2 – August 15
2024Exposure~2.5 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
July 4 – July 15
Dry · 2023Kona, Hawaii
Exposure11 days
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
February 7 – May 4
2023Tampa, Florida
Exposure~3 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
November 21 – November 26
Land to Sky · 2021Anguilla
Exposure5 days
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
May 26 – July 24
2021Austin, Texas
Exposure~2 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
July 2 – September 16
Double Sun · 2020Dallas, Texas
Exposure~2.5 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
May 22 – July 16
Organized Systems · 2019Dallas, Texas
Exposure~2 months
JANJUNDEC
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
Untitled
Rust on tarp / Dimensions on request
About & contact
Atmosphere Marks.
We tend to treat the world as something happening to us: the weather, the seasons, the constant fact of change, all of it a force to guard against. That instinct isn't wrong, but we've built lives of so much protection and so little contact that our relationship to the world has narrowed.
I make my work to loosen that grip. I take the atmosphere, vast, sublime, and indifferent, the very thing we insulate ourselves from, and try to turn it into something welcoming rather than something to survive.
Each work takes its name from the time and place it was made. A date, a season, a place on a map calls on the viewers memory, a weather you have stood in before. The work is an invitation to reconsider your own relationship to a world that was never within your control, and to find belonging.
- Based in
- Austin, Texas
- @aaronekary
- Inquiries
- studio@aaronkary.com