Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni
Canadian artist Norval Morriseau (Copper Thunderbird) Grand Shaman, member of both the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and the Order of Canada as well as Holder of the Eagle Feather(highest honor awarded by the Assembly of First Nations) is recognized as both artist and spiritual leader. Recognized as
Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collagi