The following biographical information was taken from fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez's obituary written by Anne-Marie Schiro for the New York Times on March 18, 1987. Lopez died of complications from AIDS the age of 44 in Los Angeles.
An artist whose constantly changing but always flamboyant
Dave is a photographer and video/commercial/film director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, humorous, grotesque, shocking and ironic. style His use of celebrities exaggerates aspects of their personalities and their person
I am all about Art 2.0 which is really about applying the principles of Web 2.0, Stuckism and Kitsch( see Nerdrum) in a creative formula. The "2.0-ness" is not something new, but rather a fuller realization of the true potential of Art.