Aaron Maier-Carretero: Up and Away! | Project Room

David B Smith Gallery is pleased to present Up and Away!, Los Angeles–based artist Aaron Maier-Carretero’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

 

Working from freeform drawing, Maier-Carretero allows forms to emerge intuitively before bending and reworking them into recurring motifs—at times familiar, at times abstract. Through repetition, discipline, and release, the work moves between intention and surprise, arriving at images that resist fixed interpretation.

 

In Up and Away!, this approach extends into the installation itself. Works on paper are pinned on the wall in structured arrangements, where individual drawings function both independently and as part of a larger whole. In this way, the exhibition shifts the focus away from the singular image, asking the viewer to read across relationships, rhythms, and spatial tensions. In doing so, the traditional picture plane gives way to a more open, object-based experience.