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My design practice grows from my expanding perception that art is creating something, whether it be a digital design or an oil painting or a sculpture that expresses something in, I hope, a universally accessible way. When I was a young BFA student, I thought art began and ended with the pen, the pencil and paint; along the way, computers were invented, and have since become one of the most powerful tools available to artists, whether working in sound, light, motion, or the negative space between objects.
I’m no longer convinced that “Fine Art” is a separate category of skills from “Illustration” or “Graphic Design.” I question the divisions in the art community that place more value on one type of creation than on another. Truthfully, the same fundamental skills are critical to any artist—the ability to create an object that functions properly and doesn’t exclude the possibility of beauty of form.
I aim to create a conversation between fine art and art done-for-hire. Neither is less nor more than the other, and marginalizing one approach doesn’t make another approach better or less—but it does diminish art as a whole to place artificial divisions in paramount positions. I hope to show that each art, each artist, is inherently valuable.
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MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Artist Type: Media Arts: Graphic Artist; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Painter
Artist Style: Literary: Children, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction; Music: Big Band, Classic Rock, Country, Disco, Funk, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, New Age, Pop, Punk, Rap, Reggae, Retro, Rock, Salsa, Soul/R&B; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Art: Abstract, Figurative, Illustrative, Photo Realistic, Portraiture
Artist Medium: Computer; Drawing Media; Oil; Watercolor; 3D Printing
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
Most of my work is done in Watercolor and my digital work is done via different Adobe software that requires for each project. I also do 3D printing and modeling, I try to use them to create a mixed medium and give my work depth and texture.
I am an Illustrator, I have been an illustrator better known these days as a “Storyteller” before that terminology, has been adopted in the art world and design world all my life from my college degrees. As you can from my undergraduate BFA in Media Communication with 3 major studies in Animation, Illustration, and Cartooning. All have to deal with “storytelling” in 3 different types of formats. When I went back for my 1st MFA I chose Illustration and a concentration in children’s book illustration and design and layout publishing my first book called “Buffelumphs! The Elephants under the bed!” this was my thesis project for this degree. When I went back for my 2md MFA in Interactive & UI/UX Design I also created an interactive graphic novel that contains AR (Augmented Reality). This was going back to my “storytelling” theme and concept. I looked at my 2nd MFA at where is the graphic novel and comic book industry going and heading. Why…because I was and still looking at the future of the industries and the target audience and what they will want and expect with the future of technology.
