Aho describes the lake’s surface depicted in many of his works as both “mirror and void,” and indeed, the painted ponds are filled with aesthetic and metaphorical oppositions.

The forest and the pond are in constant states of flux, following phases of growth, decay, and regeneration.

Aho returns to these sites at different times of day and weathers, evoking these transient natural states in atmospheric color, such as the flickering yellow lights of Orion, Mists, and Fireflies No. 1 (2022). 

Eric Aho lives and works in Saxtons Rivers, VT. After studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London, Aho received his BFA, and in 1989 participated in the first exchange of scholars between the U.S. and Cuba in over thirty years. Recent solo exhibitions include: Eric Aho: Headwater at the Burlington City Arts Center, VT (2022); Eric Aho: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding at the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT (2016); Eric Aho: Ice Cuts at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH (2016); Eric Aho: In the Landscape at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. (2013); and Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (2012). Other exhibitions have taken place at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT; Portland Art Museum, MA; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, MA; National Academy, NY; and American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY. 

Aho’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Denver Art Museum, CO; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; and the Oulu Museum of Art, Finland, among others.