Artist's Statement

Brett Hess

The following is a list of people, places, and things that have influenced my mind, and my paintings:

Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jean Michel Basquiat, Three's Company, Crispin Glover, Hal 9000, Max Ernst, Ivan Albright, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Jane's Addiction, Mother Love Bone, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Freaks, Bums, Beatniks, and Street Urchins of the Chicago Streets, all those 80's Horror Flicks, Land of the Lost, Jaws, The Original Star Wars trilogy, Willem De Kooning, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Klee, Amadeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Joan Miro, Pavel Tchelitchew, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Evan Dorkin, Seka, Marilyn Chambers, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorcese, Lucian Freud, Robert Williams, R. Crumb, Atari 2600, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Robert Krajecki, The Beastie Boys, The Dead Milkmen, Mr. Yuk!, Chuck Close, Francis Bacon, Rene Magritte, Keith Haring, Robert Motherwell, Dinosaurs, Anything Mike Patton has been involved in, Johnny Cash, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Frida Kahlo, The Simpsons, H.R. Giger, Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse Magazines, Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, Eddie Murphy (when he was funny), Steve Martin, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Denis Leary, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Andy Kaufman, Dave McKean, Hieronymus Bosch, Henri Matisse, The Lunatics and Drug Addicts of New Orleans, My Family, Comic Books, Edward Gorey, Bill Watterson, and probably a few others I can't think of.

The end result when blending these ingredients should look something very much like my artwork. They are meant to be enjoyed both shaken and stirred, Salud.

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