2011 • 36″ x 24″ acrylic, spray paint, fabric on panel
div class=”portfolio_desc”>The coy young woman with her good and bad conscience on her shoulders pretends to not notice as they ply her with drink. The Ty-D-Bol blue martini is as much a jab at trendy martinis as it is on the people who market them to women.
Having descended down into South Texas through the Hill Country one day long ago, Dick never claimed to be Texan, but his German heritage and love for tacos is something he shares with the inhabitants of the region. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, OH, he spent the worst years of his life up north, maturing artistically and refining an Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ style shaped by his experiences as a recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and optimistic existentialist. He lives and works in his humble turquoise studio-home (Dick’s WurstHaus Art Shanty) near downtown San Antonio.
