Two Paths

Bill Krupinski

acrylic

“Bill Krupinski started drawing when he first crawled onto a roll of shelf paper with a crayon clutched in his sticky little hand. He hasn’t stopped since. Claiming his ideas come from “living in my head while going out of my mind”, he draws from a deep inner wellspring clarified by his experience as a self-made artist and author. Early on, Bill hustled his own gigs drawing posters for rock bands and doing illustration, cartoons and ads in the alternative press. Plenty of ink and many tears were spilled in the screen-printing industry. Later, he learned the arcane secrets of the pre-computer, hand-lettering sign trade. He ran his own sign shop, “The Sign Wizard”, for 20 years before closing it for health reasons in 2000. Since then, he has dedicated his energy to working in water-based media, colored pencils, and India Inks, in the “Visionary Art” genre. Themes entailing metaphysics, meditation, psychedelic imagery, alternate realities, and alien contact, are spread throughout his philosophic diaspora, often portrayed with whimsical sincerity, using his trademark bright colors. Prolific and thoughtful artist, writer, concerned citizen, “The People’s Cartoonist” and even fun musician are all terms that can apply to Wm. J. Krupinski, the diligent, forward-thinking creative juggernaut whose friends simply call him Bill.”

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Size: 28″ x 36″
Price: $5200

Contact aprilhc@eauclaire.lib.wi.us for details.