About Me ~ Bio
Jeff Neugebauer ~ Art and Music Bio
I graduated with honors and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Arizona State University where I attended on scholarship for academic and artistic merit. I can literally draw anything and usually develop all my concepts straight from my imagination to paper.
Selected Exhibitions:
Arist Xchange, San Francisco, CA, Realism Exhibition, November 2010
Wonderland SF, “Fantasy Girls” invitational exhibition, September 2010
Room Gallery, 1320 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, April 2010 - present.
Chillin’ Productions 12th Anniversary, San Francisco Art and Fashion Exhibition, May, 2010
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Feb 4 - March 2, 2010
Aspect Gallery, 731 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA, Jan 14, 2010 - present.
Chillin’ Productions Best of San Francisco Art and Fashion Exhibition, Dec. 2009
Cohen Rese Gallery, 432 Sutter, Union Square, San Francisco, CA, July 2009 - Jan. 2010.
“A New Paradigm”, Private Exhibition, Gallery 560, Union Square San Francisco, CA, April 2009
“People”, Ohlone College Art Musem, Fremont, CA, Jan. - Feb. 2009
Chillin’ Productions Best of San Francisco Art and Fashion Exhibition, Dec. 2008
Images of Eyes Gallery Featured Artist, www.imagesofeyes.com, Oct. 2008
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Solo: Renaissance Painter of the Present, Bakersfield CA, Sept.-Oct. 2007
Gallerie Icosahedron, New York, NY, May 2007
"Diverse Expressions”, Marin County Center for the Arts, San Rafael, CA, Nov. 2006 - Jan. 2007
Phillips Gallery, San Jose, Ca, 2005-2006
SpiralWest Gallery, Sausalito, Ca, 2004-2005
One Man Show, Throckmorton Gallery, Mill Valley, Ca, 2004
Pine Street Studio, Sausalito, Ca, 2002-2004
Art in Motion, San Francisco, 1995
Pixels to Paper, San Francisco, 1994
Indians of the SouthWest, Drawing Show, Scottsdale Az, 1992
Arizona Artist Guild Show, Mesa Az, 1990
Tromp l'oeil Pastel challenge, Tempe, Az, 1989
Arizona State University, Graduate show, 1989
5 Senses, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az, 1988
The Warehouse, Bohemian Art Show, Tempe, Az, 1988
Sculpture, It's a Gas, Neon sculpture show, Tempe, Az, 1988
Arizona State University, Student show, Tempe, Az, 1986, 1987, 1988
Selected Awards:
Arizona Artists Guild Show 1990, First Place Drawing
Arizona State University Painting Competition 1988, Purchase Award
Mattel Inc. Toy Design competition, 1987, Fourth Place
Board of Regents Scholarship Award, Arizona State University, 1984
Arizona State Fair 1986, First Place Drawing
Orange County fair 1982, First Place sculpture
In addition to private collections, my drawings and paintings are in the permanent collections of the Arizona State University Art Museum and the Haarmann Reimer Art Museum, West Germany.
I worked as a draftsman through college, drawing images of mechanical devices for Motorola, Kodak and Medtronic. Before leaving the high tech, corporate world, I had become a fully competent designer creating layouts for projects ranging from space station and satellite communication devices to medical pacemakers. I coordinated engineering teams from initial concept through production. Working for those large companies had its advantages and enabled me to be an early adopter of Computer Aided Design. I shared my expertise with others, teaching design at Gateway College in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1993 I began combining my artistic vision with my understanding of computer design and animation to pioneer the newly developing Multimedia Industry. I founded SpiralWest, an interactive multimedia company that produced interactive CD-ROMs and eventually Websites for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 clients. Some of SpiralWest’s innovative work included the design and animation of one of the worlds first interactive cable television interface designs for Time Warner (1993), the creation of the first In-Car computing prototype for Intel (1994), the design of one of the Web’s first e-commerce sites for Miller Freeman (1995), and the prototype of the first "Internal Business Web Site" (now called Intranets) for Netscape (1995). While I was busy with the responsibilities as CEO of SpiralWest, I continued to follow my passions of art and music.
My music career began early, singing and performing as a child actor. During college, I was the lead singer and songwriter of Manic-N. We won Soundboard Magazine's Hottest New Band award. In 2000 I released my first solo album called "Missing Paintings" a reflective, personal work. I write, compose, play all the instruments, produce and engineer my music entirely by myself. For my second album I recorded under the name "Jynkz" in an attempt to manage my music more like a product . "Tanning the White Line" was released in 2003. In addition, Jynkz has also produced politically oriented songs to promote peace. The song titled "We Don’t Want Your War" was played on alternative stations globally and adopted by peace activists as "The Anthem" of the 2003 anti-war movement. Writing, scoring and recording a full-length, rock opera had always been a life long goal which I finally accomplished in 2008 with the completion of “The Patriot Acts”. Written, produced, and performed entirely by me, the musical is a seething commentary on patriotism and corruption in politics.
I intend to move art forward by bridging the beauty of art’s past with the modern concepts relative to the 21st century.
My Art Exhibition history and accomplishments, Music history, Education and overall career path.
I put this link on for my Mom.
Throughout my life I have endeavored to be as accomplished as my body and mind will let me. To embrace this journey as passionately as possible.
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