Joby Cummings

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Joby Cummings
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Joby Cummings was born from the unique union of a young hippie Jewish girl and the self proclaimed 70s guru "The Blackfoot Indian Chief" in Palm Springs, California. Raised a redneck in rural Texas, Joby discovered his mom's art supplies at age seven, he gave up his destiny as a prestigious rocket scientist, and pursued the career of a starving artist. He then spent many years daydreaming, avoiding responsibilities, and drawing instead of doing schoolwork. He was heavily influenced at a young age by classic lowbrow art and cartoons like Wacky Packages, Ed Roth, and early Disney animations.

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Joby Cummings was born from the unique union of a young hippie Jewish girl and the self proclaimed 70s guru "The Blackfoot Indian Chief" in Palm Springs, California. Raised a redneck in rural Texas, Joby discovered his mom's art supplies at age seven, he gave up his destiny as a prestigious rocket scientist, and pursued the career of a starving artist. He then spent many years daydreaming, avoiding responsibilities, and drawing instead of doing schoolwork. He was heavily influenced at a young age by classic lowbrow art and cartoons like Wacky Packages, Ed Roth, and early Disney animations.

Joby later went on to attend some obscure junior college with hopes of becoming a top tier graphic designer. As fate would have it, he was distracted by the allure of the tattoo industry and found himself apprenticing in a local studio in Dallas, Texas. Thrown into the fast paced environment of a high volume tattoo shop in the early 1990s, he would get his baptism by fire in illustration and design. Eight years later he found himself returning to graphic design realm. This move overlapped his tattoo career and eventually took precedent until late 2005 when Joby had a "come to Jesus" moment and decided for his own sanity it was best he quit the corporate grind and move to back to Los Angeles in order to fulfill his lifelong destiny - to become a rocket scientist! Well, that idea lasted about halfway through the drive to California at which point he figured it would be easier to just be an artist and enjoy life.

Joby Cummings has won numerous awards in the tattoo industry and in graphic design. It would be proper to list them but the subject of the awards is relatively disconnected from the current direction of his art - better to let you reach your own conclusion rather than let a trophy contaminate your opinion.

Joby's art has been diplayed at The Red Crow Studio - San Diego, Zubar - Dallas, Velvet Grip - LA, Solsticycle - Echo Park, and numerous other galleries and venues. Many of his original paintings and prints are in private collections across the United States and Canada.

Publications that have features his artist include: Tattoo Savage, International Tattoo, Skin Art, Tattoo Flash, and Inked - teNeues Publishing. His art also can be found in numerous clothing lines and t-shirt companies such as: Christian Audigier, Scanty Pajamas, Zissou & Spike, BCBG, Vertigo, Joie, ENK, West 49, and Shirt.Woot.

Joby often describes his art as pop culture meets lowbrow nestled in a extra dimensional cartoon that never existed, or did it? He likes to focus on combining elements that normally would not ordinarily be found together and he attempts to find harmony in these items and deliver them with a bit of humor and a nice dose of the bizzare.

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Birth Place: California
Current Residence: Providence Village, Texas
Education: a little bit of college, a lot of life
Press & Publications: a bunch of tattoo magazines and some coffee table books
Permanent Collection: too many to name
Genre: Character, Fine Art, Illustration, Low Brow, Mixed Media, and Typography
TTP Debut: May 24, 2011

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