It is amazing how this affected me.
1974—
I ride my metallic gold Schwinn Stingray (with the banana seat) collecting Rick Griffin’s “tales from the tube “ movie posters off of telephone poles.
FAMILY MOVES TO ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
Griffin’s Beautiful Jimi Hendrix Flying Eyeball poster haunts and intrigues me.
A friend gives me a David Lance Goines poster.
1979-
Jane Abrams, my painting instructor at University of New Mexico comments my work looks like Wayne Thiebaud. I become a huge Thiebaud fan.
At Malibu, Pepperdine University looks like a good place to gather academic credits for Art Center, I ask myself the question why must I be an Art Teacher in order to be a Painter?
I stand, fixated in front of one of the Van Gogh sunflowers at Norton Simon museum.
study painting with Janice Lowry
1984 -graduate- Art Center College of Design, Pasadena with honors .
artwork for Applied Technology Associates on Sensor Package, is launched into Earth Orbit aboard Space Shuttle
I meet Lonnie Frisbee. The second time I see him tells me about the future
I meet John Wimber. I go to work for his company
Spend a month working in Kowloon’s Walled City
rent a studio in San Clemente
I meet Gordon McClelland
move to El Morro Beach where I read Edward Abbey’s "Desert Solitare" while listening to Pink Floyd’s Meddle and the occasional coyote
move to Capistrano Beach, rent a studio in San Clemente
First Collaboration and Surf with Jeff Girard
AMY
painting the “Disney Wonder” portrait rekindles my joy of Oil Paints
winner Hilo Hatties international aloha shirt competition
move to San Juan Capistrano
start a family
Ted Rosenfeld intorduces me to Tony Forster, we become friends
Jeff Girard suggests a book
Carnegie Art Museum asks to exhibit a retrospective of my Glare work
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