Born to a cemetery caretaker and a coal-miner’s daughter, award winning contemporary artist & Illustrator FLuX began drawing at a very young age in his family's 1000 square foot home in small town Pennsylvania. In person, his painted works look more real and 3-dimensional than a photograph. He has created a new, first-of-its-kind oil painting movement called Trompe Nouveau, that combines Trompe L’oeil hyper-realism with Art Nouveau traits inspired by artists like Alphonse Mucha & Winsor McCay. Juxtaposing neon color with stark black and white, his avant garde masterpieces dazzle and pulse with life. In addition to his oil painting, he creates digitally hand-drawn and painted work in a Trompe Nouveau style.
He has been exhibited in collections, museums, and galleries around the world, and has collaborated with Apple, Swatch, Focus Features, Paramount+, FX, Puma, Diesel, Peace Tea, The Internet Band, and others. His graphic novel work includes the biography, "Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia & Back", his web comic memoir titled, "Queasy", and musician interview comics for Lemon Magazine. His work has received numerous awards including Creativity International, Beautiful Bizarre, Communication Arts, and Society of Illustrators, and has been featured in publications such as Gestalten’s Illusive, The Big Book of Illustration and Spectrum.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
MARYLAND INSTITUTE, COLLEGE OF ART
SUNY FREDONIA
STAMPS School of Art & Design at The University of Michigan
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
MARYLAND INSTITUTE, COLLEGE OF ART
SUNY FREDONIA
STAMPS School of Art & Design at The University of Michigan
AWARDS/Publications:
shortlisted for the Maciej Hibner MA-g Awards at the museum of the avant garde
Winner - Award for Creativity International’s 50th Print Awards
Shortlisted for Communication Arts 2021 Typography Awards
Shortlisted for Beautiful Bizarre Magazine 2020 Art Prize
Winner - Silver Award Creativity International’s 48th Annual Print/Packaging Award
Peace Tea Featured in The World’s Best Graphics Magazine
Peace Tea Feature on Packaging of the World
Pride Runs Deep Feature on Packaging of the World
Winner Silver Award Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Illustration West 54 in the Children’s Book category for The Village Bully
Work Published in Beyond Illustration
Winner - Platinum Award Creativity International’s 42nd Annual Print Award
Feature on Faith is Torment
Feature on Illustrator’s Lounge
Feature on Gallery Nucleus
Feature on Laughing Squid
Feature in Home Design Magazine [China]
Feature on OCCUPY With Art
Fine Art featured on PEEK
Feature on FFFFound
Feature at InspireFirst
Feature on Now That I Think of It
Feature & Interview at Art Nectar
Feature on Juxtapoz
Feature on Trendhunter
Feature on The Die Line
Feature on Supersonic Electronic
Feature in Redefine Magazine
Feature on Voristrip
Cover Illustration & Interview/Feature in Grab Magazine [Italy]
Feature on Vectro Ave
Feature on Indies Art
Features/Reviews on Lost At E Minor
Like A Tiny Doll Cut From A Shell featured in LA Weekly
Feature in Empty Kingdom
Work featured in Beautiful Decay Magazine
Feature in Fan The Fire Magazine
Work featured on We Are Gages
Interview at Evil Monito
Work featured on Notebookism
Work published in Gestalten’s ‘Illusive 3’ Book of Contemporary Illustration
Work selected/published in The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration
Work featured at Moleskinerie
Feature on Sweet Station
Dry Mouth featured in Spectrum Fantastic Art 16 Juxtapoz Netdiver
Best of the Year Review on Design Inspiration
Interview at The Extra Finger
Review/Interview in Juxtapoz