Title: Anesthesia Art Plank Skateboard

Dimensions: 8 in x33.5 in

Limited Edition (100 units)

Materials: USA and Canadian Maple/Paint

Aaron Kraten is a self-taught artist from Huntington Beach, CA who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his art career by experimenting with found objects, and began to display his work at a thrift store he worked at, called Stateside. Armed with nothing but sketchbooks, paintings, and a DIY approach to getting his work out to the public, Aaron now shows his work at museums and galleries, as well as collaborates with record labels and publications. Kraten was born in 1974 in San Francisco, California. He moved out of the city to Huntington Beach in Southern California while he was young. As a teenager, he revered local pro-skateboarder artist Mark Gonzales. Kraten is interested in street graffiti and skateboarding. 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 2000s, and subsequently set up a studio in a Costa Mesa loft on the East side.

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 nontraditional paint media such as correction fluid. He prefers to use his hands to work directly with the paint, giving a rich and textured quality to the work. He is a self-taught artist, having never attended an art school.