Education
1987-91 Rhode island School Of Design BFA Illustration
1984-85 High School Of Music and Art
1985-87 Laguardia High School Of the Arts
Co-owner of Brooklyn Tattoo®. A full custom tattoo studio that has been in business in South Brooklyn for 10 years.
Owner, co-curator of Urban Folk Art© Gallery in South Brooklyn. The gallery shows a variety of disciplines as well as different levels of undiscovered, emerging, and established artists. The type of work shown is anything from contemporary painting, drawing, printmaking and photography, to comic book art, legendary graffiti artists and contemporary illustration.
I am The Founder and President of Urban Folk Art© Studios based In Brooklyn, NY. We are an Artist collective that started up in 1991. Using a variety of mediums, our work is brought together by similar counter-culture ideas and blue-collar sensibilities, and is often a reflection of our culture and day-to-day operation. We Were a print shop for 9 years, specializing in silkscreen printing for bands, artists, low income businesses, and non profits. The printing helped us fund other endeavors such as Solo and group openings, our own shirt line, self publishing comics, murals, and teaching a risk children. We have since given up the printing business to follow personal artistic goals, but our number has grown, and we continue to show solo and in groups, supporting each others artistic interets, teaching when able, pro bono work, and our merchandise line.
Show History
SOLO
2011 Atlantic Ave Artwalk, Brazen Head
2011 Brooklyn Oenology Tasting Room, (celebrating release of wine label I designed) Williamsburg
2010 41st Birthday show, Urban Folk Art© Gallery South Brooklyn
2009 Solo show for my 40 birthay at Brooklyn Tattoo®
2008 SIP Lounge, upper west side, NY
2004 Return of the Brooklyn Chicks series, Last Exit, Brooklyn
2002 Brooklyn Chicks series, Last Exit, Brooklyn
2001 The City, Last Exit, Brooklyn
2001 An Evening with Adam Suerte, All Souls Tattoing, Brooklyn
GROUP
2011 “Devils and Demons” Group show, Urban Folk Art Gallery, South Brooklyn (also co-curated)
2011 “The Usual Suspects 2” , Group graffiti show, Urban Folk Art Gallery, South Brooklyn (also co-curated)
2011 Atlantic Ave artwalk Urban Folk Art Gallery, South Brooklyn
2011 Brooklyn Bridge 128 anniversary group show, Urban Folk Art© Gallery South Brooklyn
2011 MF Gallery’s 40oz. show, Brooklyn
2011 “What you see is what you get” Dual art show/ grand opening of Urban Folk Art© Gallery, Brooklyn
2010 “Mines and Yours”” Dual art show with Omar Sanchez at Last Exit bar, South Brooklyn
2010 The Toren-paintings were displayed in a model apartment for a new building in Downtown Brooklyn
2010 “The Usual Suspects” Group Graffiti art show at Last Exit Bar, South Brooklyn
2010 Nuhotel Group show at a boutique hotel in downtown Brooklyn with some other local artists.
2010 “Tattoo” art show with other NY tattoo lumianries at Marci Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2010 I donated some paintings to Artworks For The Cure 2010 (2010artworks.org)
2009 “Metropol Mode” Group show at the Bellhouse
2009 Group show at Gallery 506 in Beacon, NY
2009 Artsmith project artshow at Galapagos in Dumbo cooinciding a teaching project at P.S.261
2009 “Seaworthy” Group show Cooridor Gallery with Rush Philanthropicarts foundation, Brooklyn
2009 BWAC spring show, Red Hook Brooklyn
2009 “Love stinks, stink is good” Group show at Brooklyn Tattoo
2008 “Represent Brooklyn” Group art show at TRA Gallery, April, Brooklyn
2008 Urban Folk Art© studios, Brooklyn Next Festival (part of BAM’s series)
2006 Undergorunded UFA©, Last exit, Brooklyn (curated and participated)
2006 Brooklyn Tattoo Winter Show, (curated and participated)
2006 Brooklyn Tattoo Studio opening (curated and participated)
2005 BWAC spring art show, Brooklyn
2005 Mark Bode’s “Lizard of Oz” release/opening Honoring Cheech Wizard, Marcoart, N.Y.
2005 Urban Folk Art© group show, NUEZ, New York N.Y.
2005 “Comiclysm”(Comic Art) Sputnik, curated and participated
2004 BWAC spring exhibition 12, Brooklyn
2004 Atlantic ave. Art Walk @ Artezn, Brooklyn
2004 BWAC spring exhibition, Red Hoopk Brooklyn
2004 Urban Folk Art© Group showThe Skinny (New York, NY)
2004 Urban Fok Art© NUEZ (co curated and participated),New York N.Y.
2004 Upstarts Group show CBGB’s gallery, New York, N.Y.
2003 BWAC spring exhibition, Brooklyn
2003 Upstarts show cbgb gallery ny ny
2001 BWAC Spring show, Brooklyn
ALSO
2011-I participated in Sing For Hope’s Pop Up Piano project where I was one of 88 artists who painted a piano that was placed in Brooklyn Bridge Park for 2 weeks for the public to come and play. My piano was then one of 10 chosen to be auctioned off for the charity.
2007 – Present I have comtinually been a contributor of artwork to the 3 Rockband games By Harmonix/MTV
2005-Nomiated for a “Hanley” award for same Graphic novel (undrt category “best self published comic”) Hanleys Universe is one of the largest comic retailers in NY, Located across the street from the foot of the Empire State building,
2001-Nominated for an IGNATZ award for My self published Graphic Novel (under the category “outstanding comic”) for my series “APRENDIZ” at the Small Press Expo, Bethesda, Maryland
