Aaron Young presents Composition of a Tear at KDR, 790 NW 22nd St. The opening reception on December 1, 2026 (7–11 PM) includes an artist performance promptly at 9 PM.
Aaron Young (b. 1972, San Francisco) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from Yale University in 2004. His work relies on the aftereffects of dynamic, energetic and sometimes dangerous performances: he hires participants stereotyped as marginalized rebels, such as skateboarders and motorcycle riders, to perform stunts in exhibition spaces on specially prepared platforms, and the traces of these ephemeral acts are recorded as videos, drawings, sculptures and photographs. In "Arc Light," a team of riders performed burnouts that left a complex choreography of tire marks, taking Robert Rauschenberg's "Automobile Tire Print" (1951) as a starting point and offering an expanded take on Jackson Pollock's action paintings. His work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the Serpentine Gallery and the 2nd Moscow Biennale.
