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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, dumptrucks & dragsters. Played football up until high school when I had to choose between playing sports and playing percussion. In my senior year in high school, I redesigned my drum section’s uniforms and wrote some great cadences I still play in my head. Also in my senior year, I went to early band practice at 7 am every morning, Marching band at 8:30 and went to one class afterwards until lunch, and then walked across the street where I was a dental assistant. Until 4pm. After that I ran over to the band hall & played drums for the jazz band until 6. Long days. But creative ones.

Studied Jazz and Biology at UTSA for a couple of years. Left for Dallas to go to the Dallas Art Institute. Back then, it was at European crossroads with a pool hall downstairs, and 4 topless bars seen from the rooftops & on-campus parking lots where we used to smoke spliff. Great school if you want to be working for someone else all your life. Not so much if you are venturing out on your own fine art way.

Began collecting creative experiences while still in school working for Altsys (a Jim Von Ehr joint), who developed Freehand before it was bought out by the big dawgs. Became a partner in a "disk-based ad firm", designing interactive direct mail advertisements on diskettes. From there I ventured into various creative directorships for a video game company (who created "Harvester") and a spa treatment & product manufacturer. Became a scenic painter, sculptor and designer for award-winning design firms like DS Arts and TW Designs. Later, 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

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, social injustice patrolman, book binder, event planner and anti-art scenester.

Works shown at Pan American Art Projects, Art Prostitute (Now The Public Trust), The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, The McKinney Ave. Contemporary, Nine Eyes Studio, Hibernia Dental Arts, World Trade Center, Canvas Gallery, Ice House Cultural Center, Bath House Cultural Center, CityGallery, Artizen Fine Arts, and numerous public and private studio showings - most in the North Texas region.

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

The look & sounds of women & their barefoot walk. Amateur Rocketeers. 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, Turner's color memory, and Goya's drawings.