Jack Stricker

Visual Art – San Diego

Jack Stricker was born in San Diego in 1987 and studied painting and printmaking at San Diego State University. Graduating SDSU in 2010 he now pursues a career as a freelance painter in the San Diego area. Utilizing a range of mediums and style combinations, Stricker paints multi-layered, mixtured environments. He takes images that don\'t conventionally belong together and make them co-exist in a world of animals, stencils, women, and graffiti. His work is mostly figurative using such themes as contradiction, the natural world, beauty and humor. He often uses the combination of oil paints mixed with spray paints, the effect creates a raw but also refined feeling and texture.