Aristotle Forrester

Aristotle Forrester is a painter and printmaker whose work focuses on ancestral storytelling and the congruencies between the figure and landscape. His work relies on the use of his body and color to make gestural marks that animate perspective and create worlds of movement. As a black artist navigating the intersections of personal and collective history, he draws inspiration from the Yoruba and Afro-Caribbean spiritual landscape and palette, Jack Whitten’s use of self-made tools and paint to push the boundaries of abstract mark-making, and the depictions of external space, internal landscape and power structures invoked in Renaissance painting and printmaking.