Jeffery Mundy

Life and work

Born in Long Beach, California in 1952. He was raised in Southern California, Texas and Washington, D.C./ Maryland. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland California, and then received his BFA from the esteemed color school, The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.. He spent a year at Leeds Polytechnic College of Art on the Corcoran Fellowship, and studied at the London College of Printing, Elephant and Castle before moving to Paris where he attended and received his MFA from the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts.

He rebelled against the classical training there but worked and lived in Paris throughout the 1970s. Upon returning to the USA he studied painting with Leon Berkowitz, the plastic arts with Craig Kauffman and Ed McGowan. During the 1980Õs his portrait style began to be the central focus of his work, mixing the Pop Modernist traditions of iconographic imagery with painterly application and adherence to the picture surface in oil and acrylic rather that the Òready madeÓ serigraphic style, popularized by Andy Warhol.

He freely admits to clear influence and inspiration from Warhol, Lichtenstein, Robert Katz and Johns. In the early 1980s he began exhibiting in the New York/ Washington DC corridor as well as Los Angeles, sharing a look associated with the BAD PAINTING movement and popularized by the young neo expressionists of the period.

In the mid 80s he continued to show in the New York, Los Angeles and Paris art scene. His portrait work has taken on several styles over the years but maintains a highly saturated Pop Style combining the concerns of the iconographic image with motifs and inspirations from modern life and the complexities of human relationships.

Jeffery Mundy continues to exhibit in many galleries around the world from the 1970s to the present.

He now resides in Beijing China, where he moved in 2010.