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~Jim 'SWAMI' Wombacher
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Biography
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I am 48 years old. When I was 31 working as an illustrator drawing clip-art, it was announced that an intern from Bradley University was going to teach us how to "draw" on the computer. In 1979 I recieved a degree in fine art from Southern Illinois University. It was bad enough that I now had to make a living drawing cartoon birdies, pilgims, bunnies and, of Ecourse, Santa Claus, now we had to learn to use a Macintosh computer (or "The Magic Box", as some of us refered to it).
E E "Hey... E E E...I can't even type!", I grumbled. This was 1987.
E E ENow, after years of using this hands-on computer drawing for commercial survival, I looked forward to applying it towards my own personal art. Why not create new pop art by combining traditional drawing and hand-vectoring? VectoPop Art.
E E EI have my own studio and little gallery. My nickname is "Swami", thus my studio is named SwamiStuff Studio. I've spent the last four years there, coming in everyday and going home. Coming and going, going and coming. Everyday. I enjoy it. I still do a few logos and small commercial art projects, but I spend most of my time on my own stuff.
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Statement
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I attended Regis College in Denver, Colorado to study art and smoke pot in the mountains. I transfered to Drake University in DesMoines, Iowa mid-sophmore year after realizing Regis had no Art Department. At Drake I pursued studies in Commercial Art & Illustration. After discovering my curriculum included classes which required purchasing books AND attending lectures, I transfered to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. I graduated in 1979, Schmegma Cum Loudly, with a BS in Nude Chick Drawing and minor in White Trash Trailer Park Etiquitte and Drunk Driving. In 1987 somebody showed me a Mac...
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Exhibitions
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here and there...
there and here...
2004 "Painting With Pixels" - Cork Gallery - Lincoln Center, NYC
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Homeless & Hopeless
Marilyn/Sky/Diamonds
