“I grew up obsessed with guitars,” L.A.-based artist Aaron Curry told me. “When I was young, I used to cut up boxes and make cardboard guitars using a yardstick and some yarn.” He started collecting guitars in college, in the early 1990s, but “I sold a lot of them when I moved from Chicago to study in L.A.,” he said. Currently, he has a collection of about 20 guitars and is learning to play the pedal steel guitar. “I have some really beautiful ones, but unless I take them out and pick them up, they can’t be fully appreciated.”
Right now Curry has a show up at Michael Werner Gallery in New York of new paintings that runs through October 29.
