About at Crickskipper.com - The Art of Aaron Nather

Aaron Nather lives in Pasadena, California with his wife, daughter, and two dogs. Aaron creates his otherworldly characters and their surreal environments late at night in his home studio, where radioactive paint rains from tiny clouds floating overhead and octopus tentacles tickle his toes through the floorboards. His day isn’t complete without a pot of coffee, a few pages of a science fiction novel, and a big toothy grin from his new baby girl.

“I grew up in rural New York State, about an hour from the city of Rochester. When I was five years old, my Dad taught me how to shade with a pencil. That was the start of an addiction. At six, I created my own comic book league of superheroes. As a teenage skate dork in the eighties, I silk-screened t-shirts and sold paintings to friends and relatives. When I was sixteen years old, I drew a picture and won a scholarship to a summer art school, where I met my future wife, best friend, and mom to my baby daughter (all rolled into one!). It was then I realized that art and personal expression could change lives.

When I was a kid, science fiction and horror stories were my adventure and escape. I loved reading Creepy Magazine, Vonnegut, and Bradbury. In my early tweinties, I discovered the books of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. They blew my mind, and their ideas are a part of everything I paint almost twenty years later.

I make art to provide internal balance in an increasingly complicated world, and as an outlet for daydreams that would otherwise get lost in the chaos of life in the new century. My current work shows an awkward beauty lurking beneath the surface of beings who struggle with elemental forces in their dreams and nightmares. Their faces express the bittersweet wonder of being alive and wide-awake in a savage, alien, and sadly beautiful universe.”

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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BIOGRAPHY

Born – Rochester, NY
Lives and Works in Pasadena, CA

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Don’t Wake Daddy II, Curated by Heiko Müller, December 2007

Thinkspace Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Dorks Collective, Curated by Brendan Danielsson, June 8 – July 5, 2007

GARDENfresh, Chicago, IL
Curated by Jeremiah Ketner, June 1 - July 7, 2007

The Syndicate, Edmonton, Canada
Vicious/Delicious (benefit) – Curated by Lola Landekic and Reece Hobbins of Save By Art, May 2007