My parents were both classical ballet dancers which created an idealistic environment of beauty and grace mixed with their memories of the totalitarian Romania of the 60's. Their divorce when I was 8 years old further complicated matters, as well as growing up in the projects in Queens. When I was 10 I found that I had a talent for drawing and finding a box of oil paints in the garbage was life changing. In my teens I found myself enamored with the Graffiti movement and in 1977 I became the “king” of the 7 line as "Conan ".

Graffiti, along with weightlifting and martial arts, gave me confidence in a hostile NYC environment. However, when I was 17 I sustained multiple stab wounds defending a teenage girl who was being sexually assaulted. One of them was a nearly fatal wound to my heart.

After my miraculous recovery I found myself in the museums studying the great masters of the past and began a 30 year journey of assimilating Classical Art and ideas. Here I found a sanctuary from my violent past. After 30 years of painting in a traditional manner I found myself returning to my roots as a Graffiti artist.

Then it all came together: The love for classical beauty and storytelling combined with the medium of my youth, spray-paint and paint-markers… seemingly unveiling the mystery of life itself as a dream-state.

A dream full of beauty, meaning and purpose.

THIS IS CLASSICAL DREAMS