I just discovered the work of Jim Houser via Fecal Face’s interview, and I think he is rad. Here’s an excerpt:
I went to Penn on a faculty/staff scholarship, and because my father worked there, it was free. I was miserable there. I hadn’t really wanted to go to college. I just went because I was supposed to. And I felt really lonely there, and guilty too, for wasting this insane opportunity for an education I didn’t really want, but that others would give anything for. So I did what I guess at least a third of depressed, isolated, college kids do. I did a ton of drugs and got myself kicked out.
Read the entire interview here:, and you can see a lot more photographs of his work on the page too.
{Images and excerpt from Fecal Face}
oh, yes (!), am loving his work too. plus, the exhibit space with his work painted on the walls… perfect integration. fab!
You know he has a book too? It’s called “Babel”.
http://www.amazon.com/Babel-Jim-Houser/dp/158423198X
i saw one exhibition of him in paris “collette shop” and it was a good surprise, the details and the way he use color it´s very good.
Whoa — thanks everyone! I would love to see his works in person — and I do agree Rui, I think his use of color is fantastic. I love the chirpiness of it all.