About

Full-time artist, portrait painter, troublemaker, cancer survivor, and beer enthusiast. My work has been called everything from Pop Surrealism to Neorealism, but personally I like to just say I’m an unabashed Mannerist.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, primarily before moving to Laguna Beach (luckily I went to high school there before that stupid reality show) but I get bored and move around a lot. Bummed around the California desert, was a Hollywood scenester, and was even in Boston for a second. Now I live in Cleveland, which oddly my complaints about it are few. In 2010 I was diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive cancer, I lost a good chunk of my upper leg and had to have it reconstructed a bit, so now I wear pencil skirts — a lot. I’m married to this dude named Ben Vendetta and we have two kitties named Ike and Tina. More @ www.arabellaproffer.com