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==Early life== |
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Aaron Kraten was born March 15, 1974, in [[San Francisco]], California. As a child, he moved to [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach]] in [[Southern California]]. As a teenager, Aaron was very interested in skateboarding and counter culture. After high school, he worked full-time jobs while establishing himself as an artist, taking jobs in factories and working a stint as a courier. He gained recognition in the early 2000s, and subsequently set up a studio in a [[Costa Mesa]] loft on the East side.<ref>[http://www.redefinemag.com/arts/interviews_artists_2.php?artist=Aaron-Kraten&id=6 Aaron Kraten artist interview - REDEFINE MAGAZINE<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{ |
Aaron Kraten was born March 15, 1974, in [[San Francisco]], California. As a child, he moved to [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach]] in [[Southern California]]. As a teenager, Aaron was very interested in skateboarding and counter culture. After high school, he worked full-time jobs while establishing himself as an artist, taking jobs in factories and working a stint as a courier. He gained recognition in the early 2000s, and subsequently set up a studio in a [[Costa Mesa]] loft on the East side.<ref>[http://www.redefinemag.com/arts/interviews_artists_2.php?artist=Aaron-Kraten&id=6 Aaron Kraten artist interview - REDEFINE MAGAZINE<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{wayback|url=http://www.redefinemag.com/arts/interviews_artists_2.php?artist=Aaron-Kraten&id=6 |date=20111014070329 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| title=Mass Appeal Madness| url=http://cosmik.com/aa-september03/jason98.html| last=Thornberry| first=Jason| work=Cosmik Debris Magazine| date=September 2003| accessdate=2015-01-27}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:04, 21 March 2016
Aaron Kraten is a mixed media artist situated in Cookeville, Tennessee.
Early life
Aaron Kraten was born March 15, 1974, in San Francisco, California. As a child, he moved to Huntington Beach in Southern California. As a teenager, Aaron was very interested in skateboarding and counter culture. After high school, he worked full-time jobs while establishing himself as an artist, taking jobs in factories and working a stint as a courier. He gained recognition in the early 2000s, and subsequently set up a studio in a Costa Mesa loft on the East side.[1][2]
Work
Kraten is a mixed media artist, using found objects such as refrigerator doors and discarded windows to dismantled doghouses and old street signs as well as using nontraditional paint media such as correction fluid. He prefers to use his hands to work directly with the paint, giving a textured quality to the work; it is intriguing to note that brushes are never used in any of his pieces. Aaron is a self-taught artist.
One of his best known paintings is Workers Compensation 2003, which depicts a table found in the trash. It was entirely fingerpainted.[3]
History
Kraten grew up in Huntington Beach, California and spent many of his formative years drawing in 100-page sketchbooks, a practice he continues to this day. In 1999, while Kraten was working as a Vespa motorcycle mechanic, he experimented with painting on found objects. Kraten's first sales emerged after starting to display work in the thrift store, Stateside, at The Lab Anti-Mall where he was employed at the time, and sold a fair amount of it.
Soon after, Kraten began submitting his work to galleries and museums in Southern California. Kraten's work has been shown in museums such as the Laguna Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and galleries such as Gallery 23; Gallery C; Seven Degrees; and Subject Matter. Kraten shows about four times a year and posts new work on his website often. Kraten has filled over 58 100-page sketchbooks and created over 350 paintings. He currently paints full-time.
Past exhibitions
- Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) - Newport Beach, California (group exhibit) "10/10" October 11, 2002
- Gallery 23 - Costa Mesa, California (group exhibit) "Dee Dee Ramone" May 12 - June 13, 2002
- The Camp - Costa Mesa, California (group exhibit) "Remix" June 27–28, 2003
- 7 degrees - Laguna Beach, California (Solo exhibit) "Latest Works" September 1 - October 1, 2003
- Laguna Art Museum - (group exhibit) "21-art pack" October 13 - November 15, 2003
- Gallery C - Redondo Beach, California (group exhibit) "Nine" July 29 - September 11, 2003
- Subject Matter - Costa Mesa, California (group exhibit) "Chapter 10" September 18 - October 18, 2004
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - (group exhibit) "Fresh" June 4, 2004
- Wax Poetic - Burbank, California (Solo exhibit) "Latest Works" January 22 - February 22, 2005
- Gallery 1988 - Los Angeles, California (group exhibit) "I am 8bit" April 18 - May 19, 2006
- Rothick Art Haus - Anaheim, California (group exhibit) "Doll Haus" April 9 - May 7, 2011
- Art Wino - Richmond, Virginia (group exhibit) "G40 the Summit" March 1 - March 30 - 2012
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - (group exhibit) "Fresh" March 24 - 2012
- Rothick Art Haus - Anaheim, California (group exhibit) "7 Deadly Sins" April 14 - 2012
References
- ^ Aaron Kraten artist interview - REDEFINE MAGAZINE Archived 2011-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thornberry, Jason (September 2003). "Mass Appeal Madness". Cosmik Debris Magazine. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
- ^ "Profile: Aaron Kraten". ArtSlant LA. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
External links
Published works
- OC Weekly Cover May 2001
- OC Weekly Cover June 2001
- Razor Magazine vol. 3 no. 3 March 2003, *Ramones article*
- Razor Magazine vol. 3 no. 4 April 2003, *HP Lovecraft article*
- Razor Magazine vol. 3 no. 5 May 2003, *The Matrix article*
- ISM Quarterly Cover May 2003
- Happy Magazine 2004
- ISM Quarterly Cover 2005
- Peel Magazine Issue 7 Winter 2007, *Trunk Article*
- ISM: Untitled Love Project Book Issue 15 December 2009
- OC Weekly See Creatures With Kraken and Kraten at the Box Gallery 2009
- Label 228: A Street Art Project book by Camden Noir 2009
- Hunt & Gather: discovering new art book by Tina Ziegler 2010
- 944 Magazine October 2010 *The Art Issue*
- Billabong Stores Display Holiday 2010
- Schwarz Auf Weiss VolumeII: Style Needs No Color book by Fromheretofame Publishing 2012
- Newbrow: 50 Contemporary Artists book by Shane Pomajambo 2012