Aaron Worley: Boxer in Grayscale IX

“Boxer in Grayscale IX” by Aaron Worley

Enamel on canvas

70 x 49.5 in

$5000

Aaron Worley is a painter from Waxhaw, North Carolina, with a current focus on large-scale black-and-white depictions of the boxing figure. This figure, broken down by various brushstrokes and highly gestural movements of the paintbrush, serves as a “clueing in” for the continuous degradation of the human spirit and body, ultimately leading to a fragile and destroyed state of the boxer’s physical mien. Aaron believes this representation of the boxer allows for a more intimate look into the figure, despite the gruesome display I usually portray them with, including exaggerated muscles, stomachs, hands, and eyes. Executed in oil paint, the long drying time between layers on canvas allows him to soak in each of the figure’s stages in transformation and continuously edit to finalize an image which satisfies his desired composition, value, line weight, and space.