-Aaron Hawks-

		"This is without question one of the best openings I've been to in a long time. Every once in a while I see a show that makes this whole "San Francisco Art Openings" thing I do worthwhile (for me) and this is that show for this while. Aaron Hawks' erotic photography slithers the discipline into new territory, its magic being that even though he explores the limits of sexuality, he somehow manages to keep it tasteful, suggestive, and, most importantly, visually satisfying from an aesthetic perspective. So you're not looking at sex so much as you are at art, but if you want sex, it's there." Artbusiness review on Aaron's solo show at The Shooting Gallery. To read more, go to artbusiness.com "It's portraits of artists-- that's the only rule. Sounds like no big deal, right? Wrong. Pick of the litter goes to the undraped upper-torso poker faced artist nine-pack by Aaron Hawks. The gallery's crammed to overflow, and everybody gets their money's worth. Yep. It's all good." Another Artbusiness review on Aaron's participation in the Portrait Show at The Shooting Gallery, to view more go to artbusiness.com For an indepth interview with Aaron Hawks, visit Eros Zine. Artist Statement San Francisco, CA ... Aaron Hawks captures a world that combines illusions and sexuality in settings that are reminiscent of his own childhood meanderings. Old, decrepit hotel rooms and run-down buildings set the stage for his potent observations. His photography saturates the observer in stark environments of loss, loneliness, and pain; yet brilliantly evokes the determined human struggle for solace and understanding. Dissecting fantasies from the sexual subconscious and distilling questions of power, pride, and will; Aaron Hawks continues to explore the fringes of the observed. The secret to Aaron's art isn't just his technical capability or the subconscious interpretation of sexual messages his portraits deliver, but the actual sets, which are hand-built and designed in his warehouse. From Seattle, Washington, now living in Emeryville, California, Aaron has been photographing for 15 years, honing his skills as a master of the melancholic still. The women in his sets are artists, real sex workers and fetishists whose beauty, grit, intensity, and self-awareness inspire his art, culminating in the untraditional documentation of timeless records of sexual noir. Places Shown 7X7 Magazine Trinity Gallery, Philadelphia/ August GoGo Gallery. Miami /December Bridge Art Fair, Miami/ December Film Arts Shooting Gallery Leg Show Sincinema Mammoth Book of Erotica Coppola Theater Microcinema Wild Seduction Gallery Tousignant Gallery Juxtapoz Magazine Sandbox Gallery Southern Exposure Dirty Detroit

"This is without question one of the best openings I've been to in a long time. Every once in a while I see a show that makes this whole "San Francisco Art Openings" thing I do worthwhile (for me) and this is that show for this while. Aaron Hawks' erotic photography slithers the discipline into new territory, its magic being that even though he explores the limits of sexuality, he somehow manages to keep it tasteful, suggestive, and, most importantly, visually satisfying from an aesthetic perspective. So you're not looking at sex so much as you are at art, but if you want sex, it's there." Artbusiness review on Aaron's solo show at The Shooting Gallery. To read more, go to artbusiness.com

"It's portraits of artists-- that's the only rule. Sounds like no big deal, right? Wrong. Pick of the litter goes to the undraped upper-torso poker faced artist nine-pack by Aaron Hawks. The gallery's crammed to overflow, and everybody gets their money's worth. Yep. It's all good." Another Artbusiness review on Aaron's participation in the Portrait Show at The Shooting Gallery, to view more go to artbusiness.com

For an indepth interview with Aaron Hawks, visit Eros Zine.

Artist Statement

San Francisco, CA ... Aaron Hawks captures a world that combines illusions and sexuality in settings that are reminiscent of his own childhood meanderings. Old, decrepit hotel rooms and run-down buildings set the stage for his potent observations. His photography saturates the observer in stark environments of loss, loneliness, and pain; yet brilliantly evokes the determined human struggle for solace and understanding. Dissecting fantasies from the sexual subconscious and distilling questions of power, pride, and will; Aaron Hawks continues to explore the fringes of the observed.

The secret to Aaron's art isn't just his technical capability or the subconscious interpretation of sexual messages his portraits deliver, but the actual sets, which are hand-built and designed in his warehouse.

From Seattle, Washington, now living in Emeryville, California, Aaron has been photographing for 15 years, honing his skills as a master of the melancholic still. The women in his sets are artists, real sex workers and fetishists whose beauty, grit, intensity, and self-awareness inspire his art, culminating in the untraditional documentation of timeless records of sexual noir.

Places Shown

7X7 Magazine
Trinity Gallery, Philadelphia/ August
GoGo Gallery. Miami /December
Bridge Art Fair, Miami/ December
Film Arts
Shooting Gallery
Leg Show
Sincinema
Mammoth Book of Erotica
Coppola Theater
Microcinema
Wild Seduction Gallery
Tousignant Gallery
Juxtapoz Magazine
Sandbox Gallery
Southern Exposure
Dirty Detroit