Floating - Aaron Johnson Solo Exhibition

Aaron Johnson works on the floor. He pours and stains raw canvas with flowing washes of acrylic pigment, letting gravity, chance and intuition guide the composition. Paint finds its own path. Figures emerge from the flow — not placed but discovered, drifting into visibility before dissolving back into atmosphere. It is a process that mirrors what the paintings are about: the interconnectedness of all living things, consciousness that extends beyond the human, animistic forces alive in rivers and trees and stars. Floating brings that practice to Volery Gallery in DIFC — a fitting address for work about levitation. Radiant orbs punctuate fields of colour: suns, portals, chakras, cosmic events. Figures hover between abstraction and form, between earth and sky, held in suspension. The title names both the sensation in the work and the method behind it — composition arising through movement rather than fixed structure, the painting as encounter with something not quite defined and not quite controllable. Johnson's work is in the permanent collection of MoMA New York, the Weisman Art Foundation and Coleccion Solo in Madrid. This is his first presentation in the Gulf.