About The Artist

My profile paintings hide my story as a 13 yr. old runaway and dropout. My graffiti

career stopped ten minutes after I first picked up a spray can learning under a

bridge. I was taken to juvenile and ended up in a school with an art program. That

cop and the court saved my life.

I've had the great pleasure of my art taking me around the world. From studying

classical art in Italy to receiving a first of its kind scholarship from The School of

Visual Arts NYC. With articles in numerous press including Rolling Stone and

Fortune magazine.

My work has engaged with corporate partners, galleries, exhibition spaces and

museums around the world.

Most notable my first show at Lincoln Center in NYC

Art covering all the seats atThe United Nations General Assembly Hall

Designing M’s at MTV

Outfitting the executive office of VH1 with artwork

Five yr run on Sesame Street, Art used for the number three

Designing watches at Swatch Watch in Milan, Italy

Bravo

Fruit of the Loom

Canon Camera in Paris

Sunset Blvd on Broadway

UniverSoul Circus

Splash 2 in Las Vegas

National commercials with Burger King and Direct TV

and a twelve-city museum tour with the Legacy of African American Art.

Growing up in a musical family, where everyone either played an instrument or

sung. I found myself having to explain why the next door neighbor knocking on the

door, had a saxophone in hand. She told my dad she had found the saxophone

lying in the alleyway between the houses. Growing tired of practicing scales, I had thrown the saxophone out of the window and was banned from the music room.

Now I could spend more time in the art room and not to be bothered with Quavers and vibratos. As I try to escape music, the vibrations that came through the wall influenced my lines my shapes and my colors. I had no choice, but to explore these visuals, due to a self caused condition in my

eyes.

In elementary I would walk to school staring at the sun the entire time. The sun

would change colors working its way through the entire spectrum. The round

shape would warp and morph. Unfortunately I damaged my detail retinas in the

back of my eyes. But I’ve never regretted the amazing way I see the world.

My Junior HighSchool year a gallery invited my commercial art class to have a

show. We went on the streets and found old armoires and chiffarobes to paint on.

Eventually they became too expensive to ship to shows around the world. We

finally decided chairs were cheaper to transit. But now I had a design to surface

ratio problem. I toke an interest in chair design. Using the gallerist Italian

connections lead to my studying under the Italian GodFather of 80’s Memphis art

movement, Alessandro Mandini in Milan. This design movement derived from

everything that struck a cord with me. Art Deco, Bauhaus, Streamline, Minimalism,