Curriculum Vitae

Detailed professional résumé available on request

EDUCATION

FINE ARTS
UCLA + CalArts
1980–1987

PERFORMANCE
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
1983

PUBLICATIONS

L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Philadelphia Inquirer, Metro Silicon Valley, Minneapolis City Pages

Gen F: An Anthology of Short Stories for the Comic Tragedies of Our Times
Gordy Grundy, 2014
306 pages

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019  Blinky the Friendly Hen 40th Anniversary
CalState University Northridge (group)

2011  Recent Nixons
Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles (solo)

2008  Exhibit Dave
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

1992–1994  Standup Comedy
Comedy clubs, night clubs, open mics, hotel lounges and performance spaces
Los Angeles, San Francisco

1991  El Abismo Más Alto, Los Angeles

COLLECTIONS

Long Beach (CA) Museum of Art Video Annex
SPAM Museum, Austin, MN

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

20th Century:
Freelance lemonade salesboy; paperboy; busboy; voice actor; theatrical music director; E-6 process technician; janitor (Brentwood Art Center); file clerk (Kinsella, Boesch, Fujikawa & Towle); bartender (Mom’s Saloon, Igby’s Comedy Cabaret); custom closet installer; art gallery assistant director (Pence Gallery, Santa Monica); standup comedian; actor (SAG); personal assistant to film director (Peter Bogdanovich); assistant art director on one of the worst straight-to-video T&A thrillers ever made (Last Call, starring Shannon Tweed); sitcom writer-producers assistant (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, first season); co-writer (with Mike Rockwell), ProTools v2.0 video instruction manual.

21st Century:
Interim art director (Los Angeles magazine); writer, editor, copyeditor, copy-editor, copy editor, proofreader, designer (L.A. Weekly, 1993–2010); fence-painter; sledgehammerer; interim editor-in-chief (Metromix weekly magazine, part of the Los Angeles Times); artist’s studio assistant and teaching assistant (Jeffrey Vallance/CalArts); art director, project manager, designer (designSimple, Pasadena, 2007–2024).