Biography
Neck Face began tagging in Sacramento, California during his junior year in high school. From 1998 - 2002, Neck Face attended Bear Creek High School and Tokay High School. Throughout high school Neck Face says he never learned anything. The most he ever learned was in elementary school, which opened his life up to art being creative. He can remember doing paper mache projects and still does them to this day. "I think I learned more in school in the earlier years than the later years. I think if you are a teacher you should teach the kid as much as you can in the beginning years of school" Neckface (Epicly Later'd interview). He began to gain notoriety through his self made stickers throughout nearby towns of Stockton and Lodi, California, where his works first showed up on public objects. Later, as his graffiti techniques evolved, his work spread to San Francisco, where his name can still be seen on many newspaper stands and walls throughout the city. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY for two years before dropping out.
The attention Neck Face received from his street work, allowed him to move his work off the streets and into the art galleries. Galleries that have shown his artwork include the New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the Luggage Store in San Francisco, One Grand Gallery in Portland, the Dactyl Foundation in New York, and the OHWOW Gallery in Miami.
In an article on gawker.com, Neck Face has been compared to a more well known artist by the name of Banksy. "And like Banksy, Neckface has always kept his face hidden, even though he's been profiled in the New Yorker and he has a shoe deal with VANS that includes billboards across NYC and is generally superfamous in the cool parts of the art world." Neck Face still manages to keep his identity hidden even though he is becoming more popular.
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