I started painting these pop art graffiti paintings in 1999. Originally these began as some kind of art therapy, to craft fragmented abstractions, complex messages and intracies, and create paintings that worked like moodrings and could be interpreted differently based on a state of mind. And it was a was to fuse pop culture symbolism in really non-literal ways. You can also visit the gallery shows to see some of these paintings on display.
Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing any of these graffiti abstract paintings, or are interested in commissioned paintings. Some of these abstract paintings are available through my online store. Also high-quality prints of some of my paintings are available through my online store at ImageKind. Otherwise please contact me with any questions about the paintings and enjoy!
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Novelty
of Life – acrylic painting, pastels, and pencil on gallery
canvas, 12 x 48 (2007) – $975
This painting was a commentary on artificial life – I think it will become a real part of our lives + culture
within the next few decades. The painting was inspired by one of
the first artificial life products, 1957's Instant Life or as it was known after it was renamed in 1962 – Sea
Monkeys. I always believed it was just monkey
eggs and water, it was stranger when I learned the actual ingredients - they seemed like something out of a science-fiction B-movie, and how salt was used to
stimulate reproduction. The original comicbook advertisements promised
that these miniature creatures were actually trainable.
It makes be wonder what brave new future we have waiting for us
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The
Amazing Batman
acrylic, pastels, and Japanese comicbook pieces on canvas, framed
30 x 30 (1999) – $850
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Boy
Wonder
acrylic, pastels, and Japanese comicbook pieces on canvas
20 x 20 (1999) – $695
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Germ
1 – acrylic painting and pastels on canvas, 12 x 24 (2000) – Sold
Sometimes I can get myself into a Howard Hughes-like mania. I was daydreaming about intelligent life in the microcosmos, and thinking about writing a short story about a tiny earth-invasion. Instead it evolved into this series of germ / virus paintings as well as some other like "Weird Science" below. |
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Germ
4 – acrylic and pastels on canvas, 12 x 24 (2001) – $125
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Germ 5 – acrylic and pastels on canvas,
12 x 24 (2001) – SOLD
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VRRF
acrylic and pastels on canvas, 18 x 18 (1999) – $400
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Eeeek!
acrylic painting and pastels on canvas + framed,
18 x 36 (1999) – Sold
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Qwerty
acrylic and pastels on canvas, 36 x 48 (1999) – Sold
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Weird Science
acrylic and pastels on canvas + framed,
36 x 48 (1999) – $975
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They Rotate
acrylic and pastels on canvas, framed
24 x 48 (1999) – $750
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We Are Going
Somewhere
acrylic and pastels on canvas, framed
24 x 48 (1999) – $750 |
Robot Dog
acrylic and pastels on canvas
18 x 36 (1999) – SOLD
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Skindeep – acrylic painting, pastels, and Japanese comicbook pieces
on canvas,
composed of two canvases measuring 18 x 36 overall (2000) – $395
I was flipping through old magazines and comicbooks looking for hidden messages when I found a 1930's pulp magazine Amazing Stories with a great painted cover of a huge spaceship frying the frantic humans to a crisp. I thought it was both funny + disturbing that it was so glorified. Like as humans we somehow wanted all this to happen to us – or maybe it was just some kind of war-time recruiting propaganda. Anyhow we really don't need any outerspace enemies, we can exterminate each other quite efficiently without needing help from any brain-melting aliens. |
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Everything
that happened before you arrived
acrylic, pastels, and Japanese comicbook pieces on canvas
30 x 30 (1999) – $1200
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Transmitter
(In my head)
acrylic painting and pastels on canvas
30 x 30 (1999) –
$300
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Ruby
Red Slippers
acrylic painting and pastels on gallery canvas
36 x 48 (1999) – Sold
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PhoneSex
acrylic, pastels, and vintage Japanese comicbook pieces on gallery canvas 36 x 36 (1999) – Sold
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Box
acrylic painting and pastels on canvas
36 x 48 (1999) – $850
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Big Cheef
acrylic, pastels, and vintage Japanese comicbook pieces on gallery canvas, 18 x 24 (2000) – Sold
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Irresistible
/ Virus #1
acrylic and pastels on gallery canvas, 36 x 36 (2007) –
$395
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Voodoo Guru / God is warming his hands over the fire
acrylic on gallery canvas, 18 x 24 (2001) –
$175
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Three
acrylic painting and pastels on canvas, 30 x 30 (1999) – Sold |
