This is What Survival Looks Like.
These works were created with Procreate, a true painting program, on an iPad, but were forged in the crucible of a five-decade career. It has its roots in the 1970s, making groundbreaking art on the first Xerox machine in Jamie Canvas in Soho. It carries the memory of tagging midnight subways with my friend Basquiat and driving 250,000 miles through after-hours New York.
This art is the direct result of surviving what should have destroyed me: addiction, multiple cancers, the neurotoxic air of 9/11, and compounded traumatic brain injuries. When a white light experience 'struck me sober' I realized I could not paint without alcohol and drugs. I, once again, pivoted through technology—just as I did in 1984 as one of the first artists on an IBM-PC.
These are not merely "digital paintings." They are the result of relentless study and practice, fifty years of it. These works are a testament to relentless adaptation. You are acquiring the end result of a life spent transmuting every obstacle into a creative catalyst.
