Aaron Parazette

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A detailed exploration of Aaron Parazette's artistic journey over three decades.

The fully illustrated monograph Aaron Parazette offers an in-depth exploration of the artist's practice over the past 30 years. Parazette (b. 1960, California) grew up by the beach and in the ocean; his temperament and aesthetics are deeply influenced by "West Coast cool" and surfing culture.

His concerns have spanned beauty, originality, form, space, and color, oscillating between critique and reverence. At times ironic and at other times deeply sincere, Parazette has created a rich and compelling oeuvre grounded in abstraction, yet with a keen interest in how painting engages with the world. Featuring commissioned texts and over 100 full-color images, this volume highlights Parazette's conceptual wit, use of color, geometry, and letterforms, and his engagement with materials and meaning.

Author Bio

Independent editor, writer, and curator Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists' voices for nearly two decades. She has held editorial, curatorial, or directorial roles at Arts+Culture Texas, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Tamarind Institute, and Hyperallergic, where she commissioned coverage of contemporary art in the Southwest. Nancy was a 2024 Rabkin Prize nominee, her writing has been published in Artforum, Arts+Culture Texas, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and more, and her research has been supported by Women's International Study Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation, Utah State University, and others. She was the New Mexico consulting curator for the National Museum of Women in the Arts' New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, and she regularly participates in award juries, including Mid-America Arts Alliance, Fleishhacker Foundation, Creative Capital, and Harpo Foundation. She received her MA (Curatorial Practice) from California College of the Arts and her BFA (Painting and Drawing) from The Ohio State University.