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Aragna Ker
Touch the Sky
Mixed media/collage on paper. 2018 18" x 24" $500 Website: www.facebook.com/aragnakerART/ California, USA Image by Aragna Ker Audio by Mari Weiss |
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
“This piece was created with this notion in mind: that the creative spirit is innate in us all, it is the one thing that we can control. No matter what kind of disabilities we have, it is when one begins to unlock their creative spirit one can become limitless.
My work’s methodology is based in wonder. The challenge is to see if I can relate to mundane materials through the motive behind my subject matter. It is the unexplored of the project that creates possibilities and challenges that, if overcome, provide a new understanding. Unknowingly, this also becomes the viewer’s experience.”
-Aragna Ker
My work’s methodology is based in wonder. The challenge is to see if I can relate to mundane materials through the motive behind my subject matter. It is the unexplored of the project that creates possibilities and challenges that, if overcome, provide a new understanding. Unknowingly, this also becomes the viewer’s experience.”
-Aragna Ker
BIO:
A native of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aragna Ker was born in 1974. He immigrated to Southern California at the age of six. After graduating high school, Ker relocated to attend San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1999. In 2004, he received his MFA in Sculpture at Claremont Graduate University. Essential experiences serve as springboard for Ker’s methodology. His playful works fuse cultural symbols and myth in order to explore a vast range of hybrid identities. His drawings and sculptures utilize the potency of motive to curiously attack simplistic materials. The United States Embassy in Cambodia, Hammer Museum, Pacific Asian Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Oceanside Museum, and the Los Angeles Zoo are among his list of exhibition sites. Aragna Ker is currently employed as the Studio Arts / Digital Media Coordinator for United Cerebral Palsy Los Angeles, at Washington Reid Gallery in Culver City, specializing in developing artistic programming to adults with disabilities.
A native of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aragna Ker was born in 1974. He immigrated to Southern California at the age of six. After graduating high school, Ker relocated to attend San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1999. In 2004, he received his MFA in Sculpture at Claremont Graduate University. Essential experiences serve as springboard for Ker’s methodology. His playful works fuse cultural symbols and myth in order to explore a vast range of hybrid identities. His drawings and sculptures utilize the potency of motive to curiously attack simplistic materials. The United States Embassy in Cambodia, Hammer Museum, Pacific Asian Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Oceanside Museum, and the Los Angeles Zoo are among his list of exhibition sites. Aragna Ker is currently employed as the Studio Arts / Digital Media Coordinator for United Cerebral Palsy Los Angeles, at Washington Reid Gallery in Culver City, specializing in developing artistic programming to adults with disabilities.
DESCRIPTION:
A hot air balloon supports a wheelchair. The balloon has red stripes on a white background. On the balloon is written in blue letters ”ME sets you free”.
Hanging from the balloon in a wheelchair is a girl with her left arm outstretched. She floats over hills or clouds in white and shades of gray, and alternating wavy stripes in dark and light blue that could be water or sky.
-description by Teri Grossman
Hanging from the balloon in a wheelchair is a girl with her left arm outstretched. She floats over hills or clouds in white and shades of gray, and alternating wavy stripes in dark and light blue that could be water or sky.
-description by Teri Grossman
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