Artist Bio

Born AUGUST 2 1964 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, JFK Fetal Syndrome, steel town, grand pap's cigarette smoke. One year old moved to Musoma Tanzania East Africa sick on the trip stopped talking in Rome DC3 air pressurefrom Nairobi infant ears. 1968 family with new sister moved to then smoggy now atmospherically challenged Los Angeles California lead painted orange blue UCLA swimming pools sculpture gardens, one more year in 1971 Kenya East Africa and then back in West Los Angeles then Santa Monica then Malibu and Venice Beach California. A "painter" since 1990 (and etc. since 1964). mix mediar and drawer collageir and filmer/ photo the figure for it's own sake mostly but have deep roots in the adventureland of childhood memories; when lived in Africa wrote children's books about orphans. 1973 had great and wonderful times at Paradise Cove trailer park in Malibu California and then on the nude beaches of 1974 Venice Beach California surf and sun baked breaking bottles in the Brooks alley dumpsters and frozen grunion fed the dogs, peanut butter and jelly with buttered toast sandwitches and Kraft Dinner our bed sandied sun burned tummies. Then 1977 left planet earth! seed planeted by Tolkein while still in Kenya sipping coffee at 8 (why I like 9) tea at 3 exactly daily and romping in the jungle green snakes and a poisonous river geek Dungeons and Dragons teens age 16 music- first wierd electronics (Jean Michele Jarre and Mike Oldfield, Manheim Steamroller Tangerine Dreams and film music ) then THE BEATLES now and forever... In High School received some attention from teacher in art class but by then playing music- jazz Marathon Madness at the Odyssey Theater now a blockbuster with the alto saxophone which traded in for a punk rock microphone in 1980. listened to punk rock music Crass, Dirt, Rundementary Peni, The Neos, China White and Black Flag and The Germs on cassettes over and over and over then own band Entropy. As for "art" ( love my work LOVE! - when it's done ) - liked war comics as a kid and illustrative movie posters, books and if I got to choose an art type it would be Norman Rockwell and Thomas Hart Benton. After a personal crisis in 1990 I started painting and have been painting and drawing, making art full time from then until today. Also a film maker and writer.

also spend time in NYC (studio in Brooklyn) and in Bali, Indonesia --- but need for L. A.'s special brand of cold is deep deep in bones- the air and sky- and even all the new make it or break it from New York "L.A. is so fake" faces are part of why i love home.. the Westside (and tons of other places in So.Cal too many to mention http://www.calgold.com

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