Born in La Mesa, California and raised in San Diego and St. Louis, Missouri, I have worked as an artist and musician for most of my adult life. I have been based in San Antonio, Texas since 1982.

As a child I had a strong interest in drawing. Underground comic book art, Big Daddy Roth, Murph the Surf, the psychedelic art of the Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom playbills, an attraction to the abstract expressionist art that I saw on Jazz album covers of the 1950’s and 60’s (an example of this is the well known S. Neil Fujita cover art for the Dave Brubeck album “Take Five”) served as my inspiration. As an adult, this interest in low brow art and outsider art and music led me to involvement in Mail Art of the late 1970’s and through the 80’s. I was inspired by the global underground network and devoted all my “free” time to corresponding, creating images, networking, and traveling to visit many of the artists that were part of the worldwide art exchange. I participated under the name of Nunzio Mifune and as the Six Fingers Club. I created self-produced music tapes as Six-Fing Thing and put out a short lived Xerox magazine, The Mambo Press Update.

In the early 80’s I began painting in oils and over a 35 year period of painting and exploring 2D digital art creation, I have had one-person exhibits in New York; Los Angeles; Osaka, Japan; Cardiff, Wales; Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Houston; Dallas; and San Antonio. I’ve been in group shows at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Phoenix Art Museum; The Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Diverse Works, Houston; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, and others.

My work is in the Frederick R. Wiseman Collection, Los Angeles; The Huntington Museum, Austin; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio and have been collected by film director Taylor Hackford, museum director Henry Hopkins, art dealer and gallerist Hal Bromm, New York. Collectors include Charlie Mitchell, Santa Barbara, California, who has 50 of my paintings and created a three story x 75 foot installation of the work he called the Cobb Wall.

I have received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, an artist’s grant from Art Matters, New York, a London Artists’s Residency from Art Pace, San Antonio, and a Fellowship grant from Austin-Fairchild Art Foundation, Austin, Texas.

As a musician under the name "Six-Fing Thing" I released two CD projects, "Self-Portrait as a Venerable Shrub" and "Our Children". "Our Children" is the audio half of a multi-media performance/exhibition, in collaboration with Bob Catlin, at Trace: Installaction Art Space in Cardiff, Wales. I have played in several musical aggregations most notably Pseudo Buddha, based in San Antonio, Texas, from 1999-2005.

I’m self taught.