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There's nothing quite as fantastical, magical and eloquent as watching a painting being born before one's very eyes...

Grew up in San Antonio, Texas. I began drawing at age 3. Mostly tractors ? backhoes, dump trucks & dragsters. Played football up until high school when I had to choose between playing sports and playing percussion. Chose the latter, as if...

Studied Jazz and Biology at UTSA for a couple of years. Left for Dallas to attend the Dallas Art Institute. It was in Dallas that I began collecting creative experiences while still a student working for Altsys (a Jim Von Ehr joint), who developed & later sold to Macromedia the Freehand(TM) software package.

I later became a partner in a "disk-based ad firm", a then-pioneer company in the field of interactive direct mail advertisements on diskettes. From there I ventured into creative directorships for a video game company (who created "Harvester"), developed & branded private label spa treatments & products.

Later still, I satisfied my urges to get back to the tactile arts and became a scenic painter, sculptor and designer for award-winning design firms like DS Arts and TW Designs.

After a comically stereotypic dot.com experience, I began painting, writing & sculpting full time. I am still doing the occasional article and logo. I still love to do logos.

For 2008, I will be ramping up my public painting performances around Texas, Oklahoma, Louisianna and Mexico. (For a brochure/bookings, please contact me at kevinobregon@hotmail.com)

I will also begin a new, ongoing collaboration with other artists and a new Artist-in-Resident program in Dallas by the name of "La Reunion" (www.lareuniontx.org), where I will be heading up various on-site projects having to do with the trees on the more than 35 acres of dedicated land for the residency.

Game developer, animator (old school), package designer, set designer, advertising art director, character development for video games, voice-over talent, welder, book binder, performance painter (action painter), scenic painter, scenic sculptor, editorial writer, photographer, art activist, entrepreneur.

Works shown at Pan American Art Projects (www.panamericanart.com) , The Public Trust" (www.trustthepublic.com), The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art (www.thecontemporary.net), The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (www.the-mac.org), Nine Eyes Studio, World Trade Center (Dallas), Canvas Gallery (www.canvas-gallery.com), Ice House Cultural Center, Bath House Cultural Center, CityGallery, Studio 832 (www.studio832.com), Artizen Fine Arts (www.artizenfinearts.com), and numerous public and private studio showings - most in the North Texas region.

I have done action painting performances at The Granada Theatre (www.granadatheater.com), The Anatole Hotel, and various private gatherings for collectors.

The look & sounds of women & their barefoot walk. Amateur Rocketeers. Superlative design. The negative spaces between tree limbs. Salvage Artists. The sfumato vagueness in the center of the eyes of a dragonfly. Chiaroscuro. The Texas Hill Country. Reclusive studios. Artistic messes. Experimentation. Passionate people. Very passionate people.

I enjoy the works of many artists, but I dig Chuck Close's mind, Pollock's 'fuck-you' attitude, Jenny Seville's voluminous strokes, Rauschenberg's narratives (rest his soul), Turner's determination & color memory, Goya's drawings and Lee Bontecou's linear sculptures and paintings.