Farley Aguilar's work intervenes in the process of images mediating our relationship to history and, by extension, the present. While his subject matter is purportedly historical, the deadpan gaze of many of his figures yanks these scenes into the contemporary moment.
Aguilar's paintings also adopt a position of ethical responsibility, with a sense of social justice undergirding his canvases. Something hopeful seeps through the artist's multicolored scenes—an intimation that if, and only if, history is acknowledged and its remnants confronted, we can forge new paths that lead us forward.Work by Aguilar is held in public and private collections, including: The Bass Museum of Art, in Miami, Florida; the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio; Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery Collection in Providence, Rhode Island; the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida; the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida; and Yuz Museum Shanghai in Shanghai, China.
