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born, Oregon raised, Clifford Faust enjoys working and living in New York City.
With
the imagination of a film director, Faust observes love, hate, lust,
beauty, nature and isolation. He combines his cut paper collage style
with experiences of his own identity.
After
graduating from the Los Angeles Art Center School, and then working
in San Francisco, Faust set out to see the world in a Volkswagen Beetle,
aiming in the general direction of New York.
Along
the way he met a multitude of charming people and saw a lot of weird
and wonderful places which would eventually influence his work.
Arriving in NYC for Cliff was like entering wonderland. Whether it
was the flower children floating through Central Park or fashion models
strutting down crowded 5th Avenue, Faust was "high" just watching
the millions of crazy characters all around him.
He
also found Jack Potter, one of his idols, teaching classes at the School
of Visual Arts. Through Potter's classes, Clifford developed his original,
mixed media, cut paper style. Faust is also influenced by Bernie Fuchs,
Mark English, the French Impressionists, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, and
Egon Schiele.
Clifford
has worked with major NY advertising agencies and also illustrated a
number of book covers for publishers in the U.S. and Canada.
He
created the art work for Miami's 1995 "ART DECO WEEKEND" poster,
and has exhibited pieces in the NY Society of Illustrator's annual shows.
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