GARY HUGHES

Art of all kinds by Gary Hughes, a Santa Cruz painter and draughtsman... Gary was born on Terminal Island, a pathetic industrial island that is now part of Long Beach, California. His parents, a talented yet frustrated artist and a nurse who later became a local politician did not purposefully create a mutant, yet the years of fertility drugs and cigarette smoke near the foot of Signal Hill gently basted the egg that was to become Gary. A problem child from the beginning, Gary was enrolled in a military-style school for child art prodigies. He and the other students were made to draw and paint while standing up, for twelve hours each day. This helps explain why Gary can paint anything, anywhere. Constantly rebelling against all authority, Gary was thrown out of U.S. Grant Elementary School, the Long Beach Unified School District, the Cub Scouts and Sunday School by the age of ten. His family ended up in Paramount, a suburb of Compton. Gary carefully avoided the glue sniffing, child..

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