Cody Lusby

Interconnected Thoughts

Embedded in the complexity of life, the whole is unpredictably greater than the sum of its parts. Through my art I strive to depict the connectivity that enfolds us all. The frequency of color, light and form are waves of particle dialogue. Focused and out of focus collage imagery combines with blurred painterly brush strokes to invoke a sense of abstract chaos, while realistic demarcations emanate a permeating radiance of order. The geometry of the substrates gives breath to the proportional composition linking the sculptural aspects that are found throughout my work.

Dimensional Side-Slip 2024, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 32 x 27 inches

Undulating Angles 2024, paper, acrylic and oil on carved wood framed with redwood, 7 x 22 inches

gallery installation concept

Last Lavender Ride 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 12 x 8 inches

Viridescent Geodes 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on carved wood, 40 x 60 inches

Detail image of Viridescent Geodes

Crushed Stereotype 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 9 x 12 inches

gallery installation concept

Petro Bee 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 12 x 9 inches

Me & Ed's 2024, paper, acrylic and oil on carved wood, 22 x 5.5 inches

Caffinated Fix 2024, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel framed with found wood, 12 x 8 inches

gallery installation concept

Seeding the Color Corner 2024, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 29 x 25 inches

Departed Held Dear 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 22 x 15 inches

Depths of Passion 2023, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 9 x 12 inches

Lighter Rainbow 2024, found lighters, rock and epoxy on wood base, 14 x 9 inches

Lighter Rainbows

Rainbow Lighters 3 minute video

Arid West

Arid West takes a surrealistic approach on the importance of water and how here in Los Angeles, water conservation is a way of life. By combining black and white desert scenes with lush full colored bathers, Cody gives us a stark reminder of California’s divide between the wet north and the dry south. Three elements are consistent in his work: Time represented by segmentation, motion expressed by the blurring of the painted subject matter and place solidified by a photo collaged background. In this body of work he has added a fourth element. The geometric shaped panel. Illustrating, the not so simple solutions to the water crises we face.

Inflatable Oasis 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 60 x 84 inches

Inflatable Oasis detail

Cannon Ball 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 42 x 48 inches

Cannon Ball detail

Moving Volume 2018, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches

Moving Volume detail

Rippling Wade 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 48 x 38 inches

Rippling Wade detail

Skipping Sprinklers 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 42 x 60 inches

Skipping Sprinklers detail

Cerulean Blue 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 32 x 48 inches

Cerulean Blue detail

J Tree Mermaid 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 50 x 48 inches

J Tree Mermaid detail

Deflection 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 24 x 24 inches

Deflection detail

Two Tubes 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 32 x 28 inches

Two Tubes detail

Tubin’ 2019, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 28 x 26 inches

Tubin’ detail

Cannon Ball II 2020, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 24 x 48 inches

Cannon Ball II detail

Unicorn Rider 2020, paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 60 x 84 inches

Unicorn Rider detail

Delta Smelt (Lino Cut) 2019, archival oil ink on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Gallery View of Arid West at Michael Stearns Studio 2019

Chicken Fight in the Cholla 2021, stop motion animation

Unicorn Rider 2021, stop motion animation

Cannon Ball 2022, stop motion animation

Skipping Sprinklers (Study) 2018, color pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Cannon Ball (Study) 2018, color pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Joshua Tree Mermaid (Study) 2019, color pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 10 x 8 inches

Moving Volume (Study) 2018, color pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Rippling Wade (Study) 2019, color pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

A Place for Play

The increasing density of L.A. County's population has deprived its youngest residents of sufficient, accessible public space to play in. This is especially true in Long Beach, in which a large swath has very limited public parkland. In less dense areas, children often play in the immediate streets near their homes, but the intensity of traffic forces them to a playground of last resort, the alleys and a handful of parking lots. As a resident living adjacent to one of these spaces I feel a steward to keeping the alley safe and clean for our neighborhood youth.

This piece was created for Durden and Ray presents We Are Here / Here We Are, a Los Angeles County-wide exhibition of nearly 100 artists that explores our innate desire for connectivity through sensation. Due to the constraints of the COVID-19 lockdown, the artists in this exhibition have chosen public spaces to display their work — from Santa Monica to the East Side and from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach. The location of each piece will be posted on a Google Map that allows the exhibition to be explored virtually or in real life.

http://www.durdenandray.com/the-exhibition-project

A place for play, 2020, 72 x 720 inches, acrylic and oil on scrap wood

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Water Wars 2016-2018

I created this series is to open up a discussion about water, our most precious commodity. My approach to this concept is from the frivolous side. Play gets ingrained in us early and is an essential part of our development. Those experiences with water made me who I am. By hitting on the trifle I hope to catch people off guard and provoke a dialogue with the viewer of what is at stake. Time is represented by the segmentation, motion is expressed by the blurring of the painted subject matter and the place solidified by the photo collaged background.

In recent years, water agencies have made significant progress towards creating a reliable water supply system. However, California’s water system still faces a number of challenges such as old and insufficient water infrastructure, largely unmanaged groundwater supplies, inefficient water use, and environmental issues. These challenges have become even more difficult to tackle with population growth and higher temperatures. Thus improving water supply management policies and finding sustainable funding sources are essential means for the state to develop an effective and reliable water supply system.

Chicken Fight 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 42 x 48 inches

Water Aerobics 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 24 inches

Single Synchronicity 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Underwater Lengths 2016 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 17 x 60 inches

LA Wake Up #1 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 40 x 40 inches

LA Wake Up #2 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 20 x 20 inches

LA Wake Up #3 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches

LA Wake Up #4 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches

LA Wake Up #5 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 40 x 40 inches

LA Wake Up #6 2018 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 40 x 40 inches

Deep Breath 2017 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 60 x 32 inches

what a wonderful splash 2018 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 42 x 48 inches

Slip n’Slide 2018 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 48 x 108 inches

Installation view of LA Wake Up #6 with non-working drinking fountain for the CA 101 group show in 2018

Retro Squirt Gun Color Wheel 2017 4 layer stencil, spray paint on 1/2 inch birch plywood 12 x 12 inches

Super Soaker 2017 4 layer stencil, spray paint on 1/2 inch birch plywood 12 x 20 inches

Squirt Gun Color 2017 4 layer stencil, spray paint on 1/2 inch birch plywood 6 x 9 inches

Retro Squirt Gun 2017 4 layer stencil, spray paint on 1/2 inch birch plywood 5 x 7 inches

Video of Squirt Gun Battle installation at Curbside Gallery in Santa Ana

Wade (Study) 2018, pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 5 x 5 inches

Slipe n Slide (Study) 2018, pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Float (Study) 2018, pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 8 x 10 inches

Roof Jump (Study) 2018, pencil, correction ink and photo collage on arches 100% cotton paper 10 x 8 inches

Water Balloon 2017, Black and White Slow Motion Video

Americana 2015

This small body of work was made for a themed two man show called Sex, Violence and the American Way.

American Muscle 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Super Big Gulp 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 15 x 15 inches

Double Cheese Burger 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Hot Dog 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Great American Pastime 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Nostalgic Sign Off Based on the old end of broadcast T.V. sign offs. I created this stop motion flag video for my two man show "Sex, Violence and the american way" at the PAS Gallery in Fullerton in 2015

multi-variations on motion blur of Old Glory

Old Glory 2015, 15 x 20 inches, oil on wood cut out

Time Paradox 2015

This series of paintings called “Time Paradox” is about how time seems to move faster as we age. Even though perception of time fluctuates throughout our lives this concept seems to be a constant. To illustrate this thought I have painted 10 people to represent 10 different decades of life. In the beginning the figure moves rapidly while the background stays static and in the end the figure is static while the background moves rapidly. The collage images behind the figures have been divided into 12 segments to embody time.
“Time Paradox” is part of my larger body of work called “Perpetual Motion” which deals with the fleetingness of life, time and how motion equals emotion. The show will display over 14 original paintings plus a few stencil pieces an a couple sculptures.

Installation view of Time Paradox in a square space (wall 1 of 4)

Installation view of Time Paradox in a square space (wall 2 of 4)

Installation view of Time Paradox in a square space (wall 3 of 4)

Installation view of Time Paradox in a square space (wall 4 of 4)

Youth (ages 0-9) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Teens (ages 10-19) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Twenties (ages 20-29) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Thirties (ages 30-39) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Forties (ages 40-49) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Fifties (ages 50-59) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Sixties (ages 60-69) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Seventies (ages 70-79) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Eighties (ages 80-89) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Nineties (ages 90-99) 2015 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Space and Time Clock (front view) 2015 spray paint on 12 panes of glass with a metal clock and wood base 9 x 9 x 9 inches

Space and Time Clock (three-quarter view) 2015 spray paint on 12 panes of glass with a metal clock and wood base 9 x 9 x 9 inches

Space and Time Clock (side view) 2015 spray paint on 12 panes of glass with a metal clock and wood base 9 x 9 x 9 inches

video of the Space and Time Clock

Time Paradox show layout. Designed for a square room viewed in a clockwork direction.

Perpetual Motion 2014

This body of work encompasses concepts of the fleetingness of life and time with a heavy focus on how motion equals emotion. The collage imagery has moved to the background leaving a larger emphasis on the main painted subject matter.

Dolphin Day Dream 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Oh Shit 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Pure Joy 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Sorrow 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Digust 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Rage 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Shock 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Fright 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Caffeinated Cap Gun 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Sunglass Mustache 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 24 inches

Motorcycle 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

The Hatchet 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Truck Rim Fire Pit 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 14 x 14 inches

Monster Truck 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

The Night Man 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Sweet Avenue 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Touching You I Start To Bloom 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Ginger Wave 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 10 x 10 inches

Reeb 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

The Field 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 14 x 14 inches

Sunrise Sunset 2013-2014

These three paintings were creating during a time of change. I was grieving over a dear close friend and healing from lower back pain. I feel like the mark the end of an era. Finding different positions of the sun from non digital means was an epic search.

Chopper Bobber 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Sunrise Sunset 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Mermaid Hair Flip 2014 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 60 x 30 inches

Goodbye Butterfly 2013

The focus of this series is about the release of anxiety. I chose anxiety for its complexity and it seems every one (including myself) deal with it in one shape or form. Letting go of that anxiety is a magnificent and truly freeing feeling. To illustrate this release I have created images of people exhaling butterflies. The moment of release. The figures in each painting are blurred, giving an almost etherial/ anguished look. Anxiety takes the traditional form of butterflies. Each butterfly is a hand cut collage image of what is causing the anxiety. Each painting is named after a butterfly.

Pearly Marble 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Obscure Bolla 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Xerces Blue 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 30 x 48 inches

Rockslide Checkerspot 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Mangrove Buckeye 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Painted Lady 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Mexican Eighty-eight 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Morning Glory 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Pygmy-blue 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Georgia Satyr 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Crimson Patch 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Grizzled Skipper 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Long Dash 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 48 x 32 inches

Pale Crescent 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 48 x 32 inches

Dreamy Duskywing 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Let Go (#1) 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Let Go (#2) 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Let Go (#3) 2013 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Installation of show at Design Matters

Installation view of sixty Goodbye Butterfly 4 layer stencil, spray paint, and collage imagery 7.5 x 7.5 inches

Entrance way Goodbye Butterfly Mural acrylic and collage imagery 8 x 12 feet

Entrance way Goodbye Butterfly Mural acrylic, collage imagery and vinyl lettering 8 x 12 feet

Goodbye Butterfly at Design Matters Show

No Tell Motel 2012

Sexual desire is a constant animal instinct we crave with never ending fulfillment. My goal with this series is to show an intimacy and strength in the erotic gesture. “No Tell Motel” was a saying my father said many times when we past a crummy, run down, pay by the hour, paint peeled back, sign falling down, motel you come across when you are not in the “right” area. To me the motels became a place in my head where desires go to hide.

The collage imagery are all found images from non-digital means. Designed to help compositionally and to add a narration juxtapose to the main painted focal subject matter.

Amorous Wet 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 20 x 18 inches

Red Rex 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 20 x 18 inches

Rock Me in Billow Drowse 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 14 inches

Smile, For Your Lover Comes 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches

Cheery Os 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 48 x 32 inches

Cushion Me Soft 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches

Forbidden Fruit 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 48 x 32 inches

I Hear Sirens 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Lightning Strikes 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Penny Arcade 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Stretched Ground Swell 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Autumn Beckons 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Golden Sunshine 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

No Tell Motel/ Cannibal Flower Art Show

I Stole This Off Your Facebook 2012

I want to bring attention to your privacy. I don’t have a solution to the problem, but I don’t like the idea of being a product for sale. I would not appreciate a friend taking my mailing address and selling it to a company, so why would I be ok with a website that I trust doing the same thing. It does not make sense. So I am taking images off your facebook and making them my own. I am not asking you, just like the companies aren’t asking you. Come out and let me know what you think.

Party Rock 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Atomic Lanes 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Cheesy Poofs 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Detroit 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Dogs and Cats 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches

Four Loco 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Little Bit of Trouble 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

I am Kyler 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Pistol 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Pizza Pie 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 32 inches

Revenge of the Nerds 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 24 inches

Spice Lord 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 14 x 8 inches

Water Aerobics 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 32 x 48 inches

Amy 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Building A Brick 2012

In an independent 1991 film called "Slacker", a character offers a passer-by a card from a deck and read the statement "Not building a wall, making a brick". Ever since then, the oblique strategy has stuck with me. When I was asked to create artwork in my style that relates with architecture, the statement came rushing back. The bricks are essential to the wall, such as the laborer is essential to the constructing of a building. Often times the grandiose outcome of a perfectly designed structure is all that people will concentrate on. For example an onlooker of a project in mid construction will often say "I can't wait to see it done". Implying that they are visualizing the end product (the wall). Which is probably exactly what the architect wants you to envision, but without all those small workers the architectural beauty would never exist. I have always been a fan of what is overlooked. Making the ordinary, extraordinary. So here is a nod to the worker.

The Grinder 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 16 inches

Jackhammer 2012 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 24 x 12 inches

Building a Brick at Design Matters Show

Tales From Skid Row 2011

Humanizing humans and daydreaming about their stories. With a main focal figure accompanied by collaged imagery to lend visual cues about their life. The idea is to see the homeless as people that are living lives like the rest of us.

Abe 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 42 x48 inches

Mama Always Said 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 20 x 22 inches

Are You Dead or Are You Sleeping 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 30 x 48 inches

Curly 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 36 x 24 inches

Larry 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 36 x 24 inches

Moe 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 36 x 24 inches

Perfect Spot 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 28 x 42 inches

Vagabond 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 32 x 24 inches

On The Road 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 40 x 28 inches

Spare Change 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood door 96 x 36 inches

The Demise Of Youthful Dreams 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 28 x 40 inches

Transitional Housing 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 16 x 20 inches

Wasted Expectations 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found window 24 x 30 inches

Cody Lusby + Tales From Skid Row

Tales From Skid Row at Rothick Art Haus Show

The Drifter 2011 (detail shot), driftwood and found objects assembled as a free sitting sculpture, 56 x 40 x 32 inches

Single Artwork 2011

Artwork that doesn’t fit in a series experiments and or from themed group shows.

Cheeseburger 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Side Crunch 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on deconstructed metal locker 50 x 72 inches

The Smoker 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on plastic circle 14 x 14 inches

Thems My Peoples 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on russian nesting doll blanks 9 inches

Meat Market 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found silk screens 36 x 48 inches

Over Abundance Of Information 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on canvas 24 x 60 inches

Travelin’ 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on reclaimed wood puzzle 16 x 12 inches

Jack O’ 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on silk screen 32 x 48 inches

Big Bad 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found box 12 x 12 inches

Modern Romance 2011

Modern (mdrn) Of or pertaining to present and recent time; not ancient or remote (contemporary)

Romance (r-mns, rmns) A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful (love)

Modern Romance #1 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 42 x 28 inches

Modern Romance #2 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found metal 14 x 14 inches

Modern Romance #3 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 24 x 36 inches

Modern Romance #4 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 38 x 48 inches

Modern Romance #5 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 18 x 30 inches

Modern Romance #6 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 30 x 24 inches

Modern Romance #7 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 30 x 36 inches

Modern Romance #8 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 15 x 15 inches

Modern Romance #9 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 48 x 30 inches

Modern Romance #10 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on silk screen 48 x 72 inches

Modern Romance #11 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on silk screen 48 x 72 inches

Modern Romance #12 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on silk screen 48 x 72 inches

Modern Romance #13 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 20 x 40 inches

Modern Romance #14 2011 paper, acrylic and oil on found wood 24 x 32 inches

Modern Romance Stencil (edition of 20) 2011 five layer stencil, spray paint on print making paper 14 x 11 inches

Mustachio Rides Again 2008-2010

During this time my artwork developed a constant formula. Collage imagery, stencil art and a main painted focal image. The subject was found using Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists.

The stencil is to street art, what the silk screen is to pop art.

2009 I created this stencil piece Mustachio does Marilyn. Which depicted Marilyn Monroe with a mustache to connect dada with pop and street art. My street art name is Mustachio and the mustache had become my signature. I made hundreds of different variants of Marilyn, which were painted on a variety of different objects and locations. At my first solo show called Mustachio Rides Again, there were 24, 6 x 6 inch paintings, 4 large marylins painted on the ground, two projected stop motion videos and multiple T-shirts. You will even see her in some of the larger paintings.

Great White 2008 paper, spray paint and acrylic on reclaimed metal road sign 36 x 36 inches

The Bull 2010 paper, spray paint and acrylic on reclaimed skate board decks 30 x 36 inches

Silver Back 2010 paper, spray paint and acrylic on reclaimed skate board decks 30 x 54 inches

The Pier 2008 paper, spray paint and acrylic on canvas 40 x 28 inches

The Stag 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on wood panel 15 x 15 inches

The Owl 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on wood panel 40 x 24 inches

Tree Huger 2010 paper, spray paint and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 inches

Chihuahua 2008 paper, spray paint and acrylic on reclaimed metal road sign 24 x 24 inches

and the wind blew 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on silk screen 30 x 30 inches

Herman the Snail 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on silk screen 24 x 36 inches

The Walrus 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on silk screen 24 x 36 inches

Prairie Dog 2008 paper, spray paint and acrylic on wood panel 12 x 12 inches

Guinea Pig 2008 paper, spray paint and acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 inches

Mustachio 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on silk screen 24 x 36 inches

Scotty 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on silk screen 24 x 36 inches

Des Roar 2010 paper, spray paint and acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 inches

The Tortoise 2009 paper, spray paint and acrylic on canvas 30 x 24 inches

Domestic Violence 2010 paper, spray paint and acrylic on wood panel 24 x 30 inches

Open Reception for Mustachio Rides Again solo art show at Art From The Hive gallery in Santa Ana 2009

Mustachio does Marylin video projection on Art From The Hive Gallery 2009, looped stop motion animation

Mustachio does Marylin 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on wood, 24- 6 x 6 inches

Three Marylins 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on acrylic, 18 x 4 inches

Three Marylins (detail) 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on acrylic, 18 x 4 inches

Mustachio does Marylin 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on wood, 6 x 6 inches

Mustachio does Marylin 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on tile, 6 x 6 inches

Mustachio does Marylin variant 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on granite, 6 x 15 inches

Mustachio does Marylin 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on paper 6 x 6 inches

Mustachio does Marylin 2009, 4 layer hand cut stencil and spray paint on wall, 6 x 6 inches

Experiments in Painting and Collage pre 2008

This body of work spans between the year 2000 (when I graduated college) till 2008 when I started to show in galleries. These selected artworks helped me understand collage and working with paint from a more direct contemporary format.