Bio

American artist living and working in Brooklyn, painting portraits. His work is built on a traditional foundation of drawing, light, color, and composition.

His grandfather was a virtuoso technical artist, drafting for Northrop-Lockheed during the more golden age of illustration, and his father was a surfer heading for art school in Pasadena at age 18 when called to the ministry. A strong visual learner, Seth began reading at age 2 and drew throughout childhood. During high school in all-day detention, Seth drew portraits and scenes of the school security guards that were well enough received that he was given a pass from class on non detention days to come back and draw portraits of more of the guards and staff.

His early formal art education began in San Francisco with Mark Johnson and Robert Bechtle, and the training came from the bay area figurative school. Around this time Seth worked for the San Francisco Unified School District as a special education teacher, working with students who have moderate to severe disabilities, at the elementary school level.

He continued his art studies with Robert Howard in Massachusetts, making his first trips to the east coast, where his family is from. This brought him to further study in New York under Thomas Woodruff and Joo Chung at the School of Visual Arts.

Seth works drawing floor plans for the real estate market, and as an illustrator and storyboard artist in New York along with painting in Bushwick Brooklyn. He is a member of the Gutbox Collective, which is represented by Lamberts Fine Arts. He is also currently teaching portrait drawing at the Educational Alliance in the Lower East Side.