ABOUT THE ARTIST

A native of Northwest Arkansas, Aaron Bleidt is a principal partner and the chief marketing officer of DOXA / VANTAGE, an award-winning marketing and design firm based in Fayetteville. He is also a visual artist working primarily in the realm of digital art and printmaking. His freehand digital drawings and pigment ink prints explore a multitude of topics and themes, taking inspiration from life experiences, his surroundings, and a deeply rooted imagination. His work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, including having been selected for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts' esteemed 62nd Annual Delta exhibition, presenting "a vision of contemporary art today in the American South."

In 2022, Aaron received a Black Apple Awards nomination for Favorite Arkansas 2D Artist. He has been profiled and his work featured in national and regional press including ArtDaily.com, ArkansasArtScene.com, Idle Class Magazine, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, What's Up!, AY Magazine, CitiScapes Magazine, Good Day NWA, the Fayetteville Flyer, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts' WORKS Magazine, and more.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Generally drawn to a minimalist aesthetic, my artworks intend to convey a thought, object, situational experience or emotion in the simplest and most gracefully direct way possible. I want to give viewers boldness and color and depth, but only enough information to inspire a sense of wonder or a spark of relatable introspection – and to open a door for the viewer to fall down their own little contemplative rabbit hole. I am inspired by nature and the critters in it, space and the great unknown, concepts of escapism and wanderlust, imaginative ‘what-if’ scenarios, slices of everyday life, and the intersectionality of all. My daily professional life is one of goals and strategy and linear paths, while I approach my art much more circuitously and with no preconceived limits – no holds barred, anything’s possible. While some of my works present easily discernible figures or objects in readily recognizable settings or scenarios, others aim to explore more complex, dare-I-say random, and even puzzling visual pairings. I believe that the artist is only half the equation in the making of a work of art. The viewer’s consumption and contemplation, and the artist’s projection thereof, is the other half. They (you) complete the circuit of the story, whatever it is, or whatever it may or could be. After all, beauty and meaning is in the eye of the beholder, and it takes two to tango. Shall we dance?”

“Embrace the random and come with me on a journey down the rabbit hole…”

Web: artfuloutsider.com

Inquiries: aaron@artfuloutsider.com

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