Opening Reception Thursday, October 8, 6–8pm
Exhibition Walkhrough and Book Signing Saturday, November 14, 4–5:30pm

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Eric Aho: The Meadow’s Edge. In this exhibition, Eric Aho further explores the meadow subject introduced in his 2024 exhibition, Wild Meadow. Returning to the meadow at sunrise, twilight, and throughout the seasons, Aho catches glimpses of transient atmospheres between light and darkness, snow and thaw. Alongside nocturnal paintings of fireflies, moonlit forests, and reimagined Dutch still lifes, Aho addresses the oncoming night and the mysterious forms of illumination therein. Together, these works present an inquiry into the borders of observation and imagination, perception found at the edges of spaces and forms. This exhibition coincides with the release of the artist’s first monograph, written by John Yau, published in September 2026 by Rizzoli Electa.

Throughout the seasons, Aho captures the effects of light on the meadow at sunrise and sunset, whether in the golden yellow of late summer or misty green of early spring. Light casts geometric shapes upon the organic forms, suggesting multiple ways of seeing. In his painting Doppelgänger, he plays with the idea of botanical mimicry, depicting the deceptive ecosystem of the roadside, where poison hemlock grows indistinguishably alongside Queen Anne’s lace, cow parsnip, and angelica. In paintings of meadows blanketed in snow, Aho investigates the relationship between the visible and the invisible. Grasses and wildflowers become white abstract shapes, appearing laden with snow/paint while also evoking effects of light. These planes of snow are disrupted by delicate traces of plant forms, curving stems and branches and bursts of color.

This meditation on time suggests a more personal inquiry into the landscape, as the painting simultaneously mirrors the natural world and the artist’s interior world. Aho’s Firefly paintings in particular reflect an awareness of precarity and the power of painting to engage with light as a phenomenon and a metaphor. Painted yearly in tune with the short lifespans of fireflies, Aho creates a living record of each generation. In his latest Firefly paintings, the creatures seem to dissolve into mist.