Aaron Hequembourg

Aaron Hequembourg was formally trained in engraving and printmaking at the University of Iowa. Upon graduating, without a press, he started to produce abstracted figurative paintings engraved into wood panels. In 1997, he and his wife, Hope, married in the front yard of a farm that has been in her family since 1815. They proceeded to move into the farmhouse and have four children. When a family member suggested burning down the sharecropper houses that dotted the farm, he began to salvage the materials for his work.