Aron Conaway is an interdisciplinary artist born, raised and living in Louisville, Kentucky. By intentionally avoiding the ambiguities of much contemporary Art, the directness of his work draws attention to and explores issues of social justice, the energy consumption of consumer-capitalism, environmental destruction and the global corporate police state. For over a decade his artwork has joined a chorus of voices warning and reminding us of the heavy and difficult times that are now unfolding.
Aron and his wife, Hallie Jones work collaboratively on large-scale installation, photography, and video projects under the pseudonym "Shoot the Messenger" (www.shoot-the-messenger.net). They were formative members of the Louisville Assembly of Vanguard Art (the LAVA House), an artists' collective live/work warehouse space started in 2001 and destroyed by a tragic fire in January 2008 (www.thelavahouse.org). Aron conducts community projects and workshops through the Speed Art Museum and is an active member of Ohio Valley Creative Energy, a group of artists working to build a fire arts-based, methane-run Art facility next to a landfill in Southern Indiana. Aron has a BFA in Photography from the University of Louisville, where, in order to earn his Masters Degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies, he is building ‘an Archive for the LAVA House’, to be housed at the University’s Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.
