Metro Art Highlights: Aaron Rivera’s “Lakewood” (2015), Through the Eyes of Artists.
During the weekday you may be just some pedantic pencil-pusher writhing uncomfortably in an altogether un-ergonomic chair gormlessly watching the hour hand sluggishly creak by. When five hits you’ll ovinely slink away to your house made of ticky-tacky and tomorrow will be just the same.
But you can lean back and be aromatically taken away to an early weekend. The smell of fresh-cut grass and tofurky dogs sizzling on your new five-burner gas grille. It’s optimism-mongering at its best.
Artist Aaron Rivera knots up his grilling apron and invites you to lounge in some lawn furniture and take in the sanguinity of Lakewood suburbia. The vistas vivid and the boulevards wide and inviting. Pools, parks, and probably palm fronds litter the landscape.
Rivera reveals, “I have chosen to illustrate the area’s sense of family life and community. The image depicts families and neighbors at a backyard party/ BBQ, against the backdrop of a 1950’s style suburban home.
I hope this…brings to mind a lightness of spirit and motion within the story while providing visual interest outside the narrative.”
By and by, you’ll run your fingers along the wind chimes. The condensation on the lemonade pitcher will thicken. So close your eyes and wiggle your toes in the tufts of slick emerald grass.
The ice trays never need refilling here.