EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, 1988.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009 For the Good Times: Accident Gallery. Eureka, CA
The Cold Hard Fiction of Life: Art Queen. Joshua Tree, CA
2007 God is Dead: Show Cave. Los Angeles, CA
2007 Haunted Trailer Park: Jack the Pelican Presents. Brooklyn, NY
2006 Drawing on the Wrong Side of the Brain: Accident Gallery. Eureka, CA
2004 The Subnormal Discourse: Morris Graves Museum of Art. Eureka, CA
2003 Open Season: Robert Berman Gallery. Santa Monica, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2010: Culture, Lost Coast Culture Machine. Fort Bragg, CA
Art Works Every Time, Synchronicity Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009: Life is Sucking the Life Out of Me, Show Cave. Los Angeles, CA
Old School, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Buster: Super Lucky #2, Art For Humans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Portrait of the Artist, The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Flash Art Fair Milan, (with Jack the Pelican Presents) Milan, Italy
Art Chicago, (with Jack the Pelican Presents) Chicago, IL
The Hedonistic Imperative, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Scope Art Fair, Hamptons, (with Jack the Pelican Presents) Southampton, NY
The Big Brush Off, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Instant Gratification, The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 25th Anniversary Show, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 San Francisco International Art Exposition (with the Robert Berman Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Guidelines: Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA
2002 1000 Clowns: Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Turpentine Turpitude: Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Relics...and Other Scenarios: I-Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Beefcake/Cheesecake: Sex, Flesh, Money and Dreams: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
Santa Ana, CA (curator: Tyler Stallings)

PUBLICATIONS:

2009 Beautiful Decay magazine, blog profile, November 12, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Ann Magnuson "The Olive Motel", Papermag, May 19, Los Angeles, CA
Babasonicos, "Pijamas", music video animation of painting, Argentina
2007 Jennifer Gilles "Haunted Trailer Park" (Review of Show), Whitehot Magazine, New York
2006 Claudio Parentela "Interview with Jesse Wiedel", The eXTra finGer, Italy, October 10, 2006
"With All Your Power", Album cover art for Jean Nipon vs. AI , France
2005 Debra Koppman "The Big Brush Off", ArtWeek, September Issue (Preview of Show)
Cover art for the San Jose Metro, San Jose, CA January 18-25
2004 Cover art for the North Bay Bohemian, Santa Rosa, CA December 18
2002 Jack Fischer: “Often Hilarious Wicked Exhibit Takes a Look at Moral Depravity” San Jose Mercury News,
May 5 (Review of Show)
2000 Jennifer Frank: “Simply the Best: the Sequel” Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (Exhibition Catalog)
1998 David Hunt: “Serious Fun at Gallery Oboy” Artweek, May Issue (Review of Show)

STATEMENT ON ART:

In my narrative streetscapes, I take a variety of visual references and create a pastiche of fictionalized tableaus that are sad, coarse and degenerate. This invented world dramatizes the spectacle of street culture, where people aimlessly wander and interact in a state of somnambulistic rebellion. The weary structures and street signs that backdrop these individuals metaphorically mimic their isolation and subtle desperation. These sordid tales of public humiliation serve as an allegory for the ever-expanding malaise of the working class, in the grand narrative tradition of Hogarth, Goya, and Dix.