About

Hi, I’m Aaron, a multidisciplinary artist and designer doing my thing in sunny Portland, Oregon.

My interests are many; I do paper collage, sculpture, digital art, illustration, animation, web design, community event planning, zine making, printmaking, music, and game design.

When I’m not working maniacally on whatever project of the week has me inspired, I’m going to concerts, eating great local food, playing video games, or watching anime. I also have a cat named Patricia.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I embrace radical joy, play, and freedom in creative expression.

I reject rigid eurocentric definitions of good and valuable art.

I embrace messy, simple, amateur art.

I reject the classist institutional gatekeeping of the academic art world.

I embrace a people’s art, art that reflects the values of and enriches the communities it inhabits.

I reject commercial art designed for the sole purpose of manipulating its target audience.

I embrace the idea of the artist as a deeply human being with both strengths and weaknesses.

I reject the idea of the artist as a genius blessed with ideas from on high.

I embrace art education that fosters personal growth and critical thinking skills.

I reject the reduction of art to mere commodity.

I embrace art as a tool for organizing resistance against oppressive forces.

I reject art as propaganda for American imperial hegemony.

I embrace criticism of any and all art and the ideas contained within it.

I reject the notion that any topic is sacred and therefore exempt from parody.