An aggressive attitude toward subjects chosen from the life of the oppressed is conspicuous in the work of contemporary artist Keb Cerda. His bold, earthy somber palette is essentially traditional and certainly in harmony with the subject matter. Lights and darks converge abruptly. Cerda’s realist compositions provide a lucid look into the labyrinthine psyche of the contemporary human condition. One of the distinguishing features of Keb Cerda’s art was his love of disorienting shifts of subjects via unlikely juxtapositions, a device he deftly uses. Keb Cerda has been known to extract layers of meanings from everyday and popular images. Keb Cerda has been known to synthesize meaning by combining pop-culture imagery and iconography with m...