Frank
Born December 5th, 1954, I proudly share a birthday with Walt Disney. I was born with a natural flair for history. I was raised in Culver City, California, “The Heart of Screenland,” home of MGM Studios, where Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Twilight Zone and hundreds of movies and TV shows were filmed. At nearby Hughes Aircraft, military jets were built and tested. In a sleepy 60s-Era working class suburb of Los Angeles, I came of age serenaded by a surreal (and loud) mix of sonic booms and Hollywood sound effects. At 21, I earned a BA in English from Loyola Marymount University. After a stint working odd jobs and odder jobs, I sold my car, quit a menial gig and split: to either lose, or find, myself in Europe. I visited nine countries, worked on a boat in Greece, saw the Pope in Rome on Easter, visited every museum on the map, fell madly in love with Vincent van Gogh and flew home to LA wildly inspired to paint. I found a studio near the historic canals in quirky Venice, California, where I painted and performed music for 40 years. My prints and paintings are collected worldwide. As Venice grew obscenely gentrified and unaffordable, I felt “homeless” in my own town. A friend bought a house in the leafy green suburbs of Savannah and offered me a room. In December 2017, I sold everything but my books and art supplies and moved here, where I knew only two people. One was a dog. Curiously, the Uber driver who picked me up at Savannah Airport works for Old Town Trolley. Now, so do I! I look forward to sharing my contagious lust for life with others in the radiant ambiance of this profoundly inspiring city.