Derek Aylward
Derek Aylward’s figurative language builds on a long lineage of expressive painting, you sense Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Daniel Johnston, Rose Wylie and Eddie Martinez in the conversation. His expression is imbued with an unrestrained immediacy and joy in painting, creating images that feel radical and classic, intuitive and free, while equally laborious and carefully composed, with a sense of concern for both protagonists and vessels, the stupid and the important. In the world with you.
Born 1976 in Boston , MA
Lives and works in Cambridge, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gone Fishing, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, DK
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peanuts, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
JOLLY CROWN, Able Baker Contemporary Gallery, Portland, ME
2017
Derek Aylward, Sorry We’re Closed Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015
The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Drive By Projects Anniversary Show, Watertown, MA
2011
Go Figure, Dodge Gallery, NY, NY
I Am Who I Am. The Portrait Reconsidered, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
The Guerrero Gallery Group Show, The Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Boat Show, BK Projects, Watertown, MA
2009
King of Spain, 3rd Ward, BK, NY
2008
This is Boston Not LA, curated by Emily Isenburg, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
Glass Houses curated by Eddie Martinez, Werkstatte Gallery, NY, NY
Tricycle, Space 242, Boston, MA
2007
We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt, Boston, MA
The Lord of the FIies, National Gallery of Hondurus, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
The Wurstminster Dog Show, The Wurst Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2006
Don't Abandon The Ship, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
Mini-Carrot Experience, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Books on Tape, curated by Emily Isenburg, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston MA
The Russian Doll Show, curated by Eddie Martinez, traveling exhibit
Halloweeny Show, Evos Arts, Lowell MA
2002
The Go Team, Johnsons Paint Gallery, Boston MA
We Are Custard, Art Market, Jamaica Plain, MA
