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Jay Mueller was born in the
southwest suburbs of Chicago on August 12th 1973. His interests
in art has lead him to explore many different mediums and
methods of execution throughout his life from fiberglass to
photography, Jay has tried almost everything.
Half way threw public high
school Jay transferred to The Chicago Academy for the Arts were
he majored in the visual arts program. He graduated in 1992.
Later the next year Jay started at Columbus College of Art and
Design were he graduated in 1998 with a BFA in Photo / Fine
Arts. Jay has shown his work in group and solo shows all over
the U.S. including: Chicago, San Francisco, and Indianapolis
were he got bets in show at the Indianapolis Erotic Art Festival
in 1997. He was also awarded 2nd place for Alternative Process
in Columbus Alive's 6th annual photo contest in 2004. Jay has
worked for and apprenticed under Dan Scheider, of the Chicago
based band The Insane War Tomatoes, in the early 1990's. Under
Dan's teaching Jay made props and set for the band and other
clients in the US and Canada. A bit after graduating
from Columbus Collage of Art and Design, Jay did volunteer work
for a couple of years at the Columbus Youth Detention Center
teaching art classes to both the male and female 12 - 18 year
old inmates.
Currently Jay is taking a
break from making 3 directional, black and white photo based,
hand colored, mixed medium erotic art- which he has been doing
since 1998. He is now working on paintings and sculptures and is
planning on experimenting with straight black and white
photography along with color photography.
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