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Precocious Youth
Both parents artistic; home furnished with midcentury style and modern art books...
Dense hardwood forest along a stream, an ecosystem full of mysterious organic forms...
Compulsively drawing from nature, creating illustrated stories...
First prize at the fair for his first oil painting...
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Inspired by his art teacher throughout school, a lifelong mentor...
Films of Norman McClaren and Andy Warhol, minimalist paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly...
Making and selling hard-edge abstract paintings and sculptures...
Awarded the local art scholarship on graduation...
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University of Chicago's Midway Studios: anatomy and life drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking...
In poverty, designing and building furniture and lighting from found materials...
California: producing "abstracted" figure paintings, showing at art fairs, cut off from contemporary art...
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Awakening
Punk culture: responding with edgy work on canvas...
California Institute of the Arts: contemporary art, conceptualism, performance art, appropriation, the dawn of the neo-expressionist boom of the early 80s...
Discovering Francis Bacon...
Contemporary masters John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Michael Asher, Sherrie Levine; promising students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Dana Duff, Jim Isermann...
Discovering Yves Klein, adopting the name Max Klein (big/small), claiming to be Klein's bastard son...
Art team Didactyl Brothers, creating a series of large-scale, confrontational guerilla installations...
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San Francisco: cutting loose with new confidence: paintings, drawings, narrative works, distortion, mixed media...
Large-scale alternative art show, a conceptual installation appropriating Andy Warhol...
Post-punk explosion of underground music, art, and performance: dozens of alternative art spaces, continual variety of events, large-scale art spectacles produced by Survival Research Labs and others...
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Telling the Stories
Founding Terra Incognita arts center, nexus for music, art, and performance, South of Market near downtown...
Milieu of madness, trauma, dark nights of the body and soul amid tenements abandoned by society...
Beginning a series of melancholy paintings and drawings on large panels, and multiple panels, many of unstretched canvas, trending toward narrative work and symbolic communication...
Producing a large-scale guerilla performance piece in San Francisco's Financial District...
Producing Music & Prophecy, series of multimedia shows ...
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Switching from painting to drawing, hundreds, mostly on cheap 18x24 paper, continuing the evolution from figurative to distorted, hallucinatory, and symbolic compositions, serial drawings that can be arranged and rearranged in installation to tell different stories...
Launching Terra Incognita "Pow-Wows," three-day retreats bringing together artists, scientists and technologists to share projects and passions and inspiration...
Desert camping trips: discovering Native American rock art, embarking on passionate field studies throughout the southwest...
Pastel and ink drawings exploring symbolic visual compositions and narratives from dreams, visions, and experiences in the desert...
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Meeting art/technology theorist Peter Lunenfeld of Art Center in Pasadena and technologist/artist Ken Goldberg; joining Peter's mediawork series of cross-disciplinary conferences exploring the interfaces of architecture, media, art, science and performance...
Seeing Bob Flanagan's inspiring performance shortly before his death...
Attending Chance Conference, the international art/science/theory conference/extravaganza in the desert, blown away by transsexual Sandy Stone's performance, and writing the official account of the conference...
Eventually, looking back at a life in the arts, sciences, society and nature, trying to make sense of it all through the use of explicit visual symbols or glyphs to develop pictures representing a context for human knowledge itself - a visual philosophy - called Pictures of Knowledge...
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