12 Midnite's imagery has appeared in many mediums: Neon, paintings, and custom cars have appeared in film productions, music videos, TV shows and commercials. Clients include Warner Brothers Records and The Grand ole Opry. His art has adorned clothing, lighters, hats, stickers, even Billboards, not to mention how many tattoos out there incorporate his images. 12 Midnite’s work can be found in commercial and private collections all over Canada, the US and Britain. He divides his time between Vancouver and the country house he shares in rural British Columbia with his wife, two teenage children and dog Maully. He has appeared in a number of documentary films covering lowbrow/ hot rod culture including “The Lowdown on Lowbrow” and “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He is also the subject of a short documentary titled “12 Midnite on the rocks…hold the ice” and has been interviewed about his work on both television and radio in the US and Canada. He gives occasional lectures to art students at the post-secondary level usually on the topic of alternative promotion of art. 12 MIDNITE was the owner operator of several seminal Vancouver galleries beginning with the Smash Gallery of Modern art, The Big red dot, new tiny, lucky red and the Lowbrow Garage. |
1981- 1983 University of Victoria, Fine Arts and Creative Writing 1997 ECCAD Fine Arts |
2011 Taking Liberties, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver 2009 Big Bang, The Chapel, Vancouver 2008 Loud Lowbrow, The Chapel, Vancouver 2007 Lowest of the Low, Looks Could Kill Gallery, Calgary 2005 Americanada (Traveling show), The Space, Austen TX; La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA; The Sugar Factory, Fresno, CA 2004 Midnite Madness: 20 Year Retrospective, Lowbrow Garage, Vancouver 2004 My Scary World (Traveling show), Perihelion Gallery, Phoenix AZ, The Plastic Factory, Los Angeles CA 2004 New Tiny Drawings, New Tiny, Vancouver 2000 Pure Evil, Lowbrow Garage, Vancouver 1999 I’ll M-I-See You in Hell, Brickyard, Vancouver 1998 Road to Ruin, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1997 Fireworks, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver 1992 Gunland, Smash Gallery, Vancouver 1991 Nightmare World, Smash Gallery, Vancouver 1990 Mean Young Art, Smash Gallery, Vancouver 1989 Art Mad, Macewan Arts, Vancouver 1989 Television Cannibal, Arts Club, Vancouver 1988 Neon, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1988 Manhattan Without Money, Arts Club, Vancouver 1987 Pop Poison, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1986 Big Kill-O-Rama Art, Douglas College Gallery, New Westminster 1986 My Scary World, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver |