Aaron Ristau

Medium(s) you work in:

Sculpture.

How would you describe your art?

I have a fascination for creating art that blends nostalgic aesthetics with modern function.

What artist(s) living or dead inspire you? Why?

I am inspired by all of these artisans… Mel Ristau, Jacob Ristau, Andy Aaron, Brian Bosworth, Baron Margo, Luke Blackstone, Bruce Gray, Greg Brotherton, Steve Brundniak, Amelia Caruso, Christopher Conte, Chris Darway, Jimmy Descant, Dr Evermore/ Tom Every, Dan Flavin, Tim Flynn, Rod Ford, Arthur Ganson, Steve Gerberich, Nemo Gould, Tony Greer, Stephane Halleux, Michael Hammond, Arthur Higgins, Andy Hill, Steve Hollinger, I Wei Huang, Theo Jansen, Jim Jenkins, Tom Jennings, Buck Johnston, Erick C. Johnson, Eric Claverie, Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi, Paul Loughridge, La Paso, Mike Libby, Lineaus Lorette, Guy Marsden, Pierre Matter, Ingo Maurer, Jeremy Mayer, Rich Muller, Warren Muller, Richard R. Nagy, Lawrence Northey, Ron Pippin, Allan Rath, Dan Roe, Bruce Rosenbaum, Bjorn Schulke, Ira Sherman, Andrew Smith, Ann Smith, Mark Soppeland, Steve Stackpole, Lewis Tardy, Jud Turner, Todd Tychewicz, Terry Tynan, Michael Ulman, Jake Von Slatt, Dustin Wallace, Thomas Wargin, Roger Wood.

What are your thoughts on selling art?

I make art for myself and others to enjoy. I am flattered when someone purchases my art. The money from sales is a wonderful resource to further my craft.

What is the biggest challenge you are currently facing as an artist?

Communication and documentation technical hurdles that, when accomplished, will enable a better system for sharing my art with the world not just my immediate community. Oh, and time, money, and only 24 hours in each day.

What has been the biggest victory or success in your art career?

Pushing myself as an artist and a person to move forward with the pursuit of my passion and to see all the small steps of success and hard work bare fruit.

What are your short term artistic goals? And what are your long term goals?

Short term: To do more figurative and caricature sculpture as well as sculptural scientific demonstration concepts. And to work on the communication and documentation technical hurdles. Long Term: To build my fan base.

Anything else you would like to share?

Currently I have work  in the Resurrections ECO-logy & ECO-nomy Show in Boulder Colorado.
And my solo show in the Fort Collins Art Lab opens July 2nd.

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In this video I talk about the Crush It! give-a-way. Facebook. Artist Aaron Ristau. Boing Boing. Lightsabers. All in only 240 seconds. It’s a good show.

The name AP240S comes from Art Palaver 240 second Show, get it? Each episode is just about 4 minutes long, or 240 seconds. AP240S looks better than AP4S to me. The idea behind the show is to do a fast one take no edit 4 minute recording where I talk about art, artists, selling art, marketing art, promoting art, and anything else that fits within all of that.

This is only episode six and I am still getting used to the format and speaking into the camera. Four minutes is actually a long time for an internet video so I know I am going to have to get better if I am going to ask for 240 seconds of your attention. And I am working towards doing two of these a week, one on Monday and one of Friday so I am really asking for 480 seconds of your time every week. Which is a lot. But I don’t expect everyone to watch every episode from start to finish. That is just the way of video on the internet. And if they seem to be a bit much I can always change it to the AP120S or maybe even the AP60S. Time will tell.

You may have noticed the Art Palaver site has been a little funky recently. I’ve been tweaking and improving the design and function of the site and it can cause things to be a bit weird at times. Sorry about that. The changes to to make room for many new resources that are coming down the pike. But that is all I am going to say about that. Look for changes to start really being hyped in March. This site is kind of my version of a one man band so it takes me a bit of time to get all the instruments in working together.

AP240S Episode Six | Crush It! Contest and Aaron Ristau is a post from: Art Palaver The Artist Marketing Resource.

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