Aaron Garber-Maikovska

Aaron Garber-Maikovska (b. 1978, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. His multidisciplinary practice, encompassing painting, performance, and video, foregrounds the relationship between embodied movement and mark-making. Developed over more than two decades, his gestural vocabulary forms the core of a somatic approach in which physical intuition drives formal invention.

Working on fluted polypropylene and canvas, Garber-Maikovska creates compositions defined by vivid fields of colour and energetic, improvisational line. He formulates his own oil sticks from raw pigment, wax, and oil, allowing for nuanced control of hue and density while maintaining a dynamic immediacy. His use of polypropylene—lightweight and associated with commercial signage—connects his work to the visual and material language of everyday environments.

This movement-based sensibility extends across media. In his performances, repeated and varied gestures function as choreographed compositions, while his video works document these actions within public and commercial settings, engaging surrounding architectures and bringing a sense of interaction and openness to the mundane.