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