DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

  • 1969 New Jersey, USA

DEGREES

  • BFA Interdisciplinary Fine Arts, CCA, Oakland, CA

THEMES / INSPIRATIONS / INFLUENCES

  • Perseverance
  • Survival
  • Mortality
  • Fear
  • Alienation
  • Strength
  • Hope
  • Environment
  • Pathogens
  • Authority

TECHNIQUES

  • Aerosol
  • Airbrush
  • Collage
  • Assemblage
  • Painting
  • Serigraph
  • Stencil

FAVORITE PUBLIC SPACES

  • Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
  • St. Mark’s Place, New York (circa 1988)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Playa Norte, Isla Mujeres, Mexico
  • Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
  • Banglamphu, Bangkok
  • Pirates of the Caribbean, Anaheim, CA
  • The Boardwalk, Seaside Heights, NJ
  • Las Ramblas, Barcelona
  • Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken NJ (circa 1991)

GALLERIES / EXHIBITIONS (selection)

  • Kaaboo Del Mar Art Show, San Diego, CA, September 2016
  • The Detroiter, Inner State Gallery + Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA, July 2016
  • Nothing Nice, 1AM, San Francisco, CA, July 2016
  • No Commissions, par Swizz Beatz, Miami, FL, December 2015
  • Dreamers Art Festival 2015, Playa del Carmen, MX, November 2015
  • Attack the Block, One Space – Damien Roman Fine Art, NY, NY, September 2015
  • Nothing Lasts Forever, 1AM, San Francisco, CA, August 2015
  • Atavisms, Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA, August 2014
  • Memento Mori avec D Young V Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA, September 2013
  • TVOT, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, June 2013
  • Epilogue, avec D Young V and Hugh Leeman, Hold Up Art, Los Angeles, CA, September 2012
  • Pow Wow, Hawaii 2012, Loft in Space, Honolulu, HI, February 2012
  • Marxist Glue, Hold Up Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 2010

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Paris Street Art, Claude Degoutte, 2016
  • The Outlaw Bible of American Art, Alan Kaufman, Last Gasp, 2016
  • Stay Up Los Angeles, G. James Daichendt, Cameron + Company 2012
  • Designing Obama, Scott Thomas, Post Press 2010
  • San Francisco Street Art, Steve Rotman, Prestel Publishing 2009
  • Hope, A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints, Hal Elliot Wert, Zenith press 2009
  • Art for Obama, Shepard Fairey and Jennifer Gross, Abrams Image, 2009
  • Design for Obama, Steven Heller, Aaron Perry Zucker and Spike Lee, Taschen 2009

IMPORTANT EVENTS

  • Seeing Henri Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy at the Metropolitan Art Museum at age 10
  • Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium, 1977
  • Photographing for The New York Times 1992-1997
  • Photograph published in Rolling Stone Magazine, 2001
  • Lawsuit against Walmart over copyright infringement, 2013
  • Election of Barack Obama, 2008

MUSICAL ENVIRONMENT

  • Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998)
  • John Barry Orchestra (1933 – 2011)
  • Joe Jackson (1954-)
  • Billy Bragg (1957-)
  • The Streets (2000 -)
  • Bruce Springsteen (1949-)
  • The Jam (1970’s – 1980’s)
  • Lee Morgan (1938 – 1972)
  • Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
  • Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959)
  • Morrissey (1959-)
  • Tom Waits (1949-)
  • Pink Floyd (1965-)
  • Black Sabbath (1970’s – 1980’s)

ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT

  • Larry Sultan (1946 – 2009)
  • Mike and Doug Starn (1961-)
  • Christian Boltanski (1944-)
  • Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)
  • Anselm Kiefer (1945-)
  • Brett Amory (1975-)
  • Robert Rauschenberg (1925 – 2008)
  • Jasper Johns (1930-)
  • Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968)
  • Barbara Kruger (1945-)
  • Conor Harrington (1980-)

LITERARY ENVIRONMENT

  • Jon Krakauer (1954-)
  • Hunter S. Thompson (1937 – 2005)
  • Gore Vidal (1925 – 2012)
  • Robert Reich (1946)
  • Spalding Gray (1941 – 2004)

CINEMATOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT

  • Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942
  • Humphrey Bogart (1899 – 1957)
  • Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974
  • Glengary Glen Ross, James Foley, 1992
  • Sandra Ng (1965-)
  • Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
  • La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962
  • Woody Allen (1935-)
  • Beat Takeshi
  • James Bond
  • Gattaca, Andrew Niccol, 1998
  • Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai, 1995
  • Gong Li (1965-)
  • Wong Kar-wai (1958-)
  • Tony Leung (1962-)
  • Albert Brooks (1947-)
  • 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle, 2002