Aaron Kizer | Kentucky Life | KET

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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2015 · Education

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Owensboro, Ky., artist Aaron Kizer is self-taught. He paints striking portraits of familiar pop culture figures—like Mick Jagger, Steve Jobs, and Jimi Hendrix—against black backgrounds in which the negative space in the portrait is essential.

One of his goals, he says, is "to create art that prompts people to see all things in their lives from a new and different perspective."

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