After surviving the September 11 attacks Aldridge relocated his studio to the Brooklyn Navy Yard . In 2002 then New Museum curator Anne Ellegood included Aldridge in ‘ The Meaning of Style ’ which also featured Steve Ellis ( comics ) and Robert Stone ( architect ) , writing in the exhibition catalogue , “ Simon Aldridge pushes conventional limitations of monochromatic painting and minimalist sculpture through forms that function as a hybrid of these media and are simultaneously imbued with content related to everyday street culture . His use of spray paint is seductive for its surprisingly variable surface texture while remaining , as the artist describes it , consistently ' atonal ' . The painterly concerns of the medium are then meaningfully related to the subcultures of graphiti artists and even construction workers , who use these standardized materials on an ongoing basis . ” Aldridge ’s work was first shown with other post-conceptual artists Wade Guyton , Kelley Walker and Patrick Meagher ( artist ) in ‘ Retrofit ’ curated by Lauri Firstenberg at Lombard Freid Fine Arts , New York in 2002 . Firstenberg was at the time the curator of Artists Space and described Aldridge ’s work - “ Foregrounding architectural illusion , Aldridge produces a delicate balance between accident and intention , structure and agency , theoretical intervention and subjective aimlessness . ” At the close of 2002 , Aldridge was included in Flash Art Magazine ’s survey of ‘ Contemporary Painting Today ’
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Simon Aldridge