David Choe, Signed (1 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. David Choe (Cover Illustration) and Won Yoh (Cover (illustrator). The format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. [7], 209, [4] pages. The cover has some sticker residue. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. The inscription reads: "To Professor Howard Feinstein, Civil Rights warrior, author, musician, and professor. A man with many talents, and wide reaching impact. Thanks for a great semester. Benedict Kim". Mr. Feinstein worked as a criminal prosecutor and litigating attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a professor of U.S. Civil Rights, U.S. Constitutional Law, Sex Discrimination, and Criminal Law serving at institutions including: George Washington University (Washington, DC); the University of Maryland, College Park; and Hood College (Frederick, MD). For the University of Maryland System, he served as a hearing examiner. A man who has lost his memories attempts to recall a past that has forsaken him with the help of a controverial, perhaps even unethical doctor who promises him the past, present, and more. Intending to embark on a journey into the labyrinth of his unconscious mind, the treatment is rife with uncertainty. But do his memories truly lie at the end of this maze? And at what cost? David Choe (born April 22, 1976) is an American artist, musician, actor, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice. He has an ongoing relationship with the Asian pop culture website, store, and former magazine Giant Robot. His figurative paintings, which explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation, are characterized by a raw, frenetic method that he has termed "dirty style." In 1996, Choe self-published a graphic novel titled Slow Jams. He claims to have made only 200 copies and given them away at Comic-Con in 1998, hoping to interest a publisher. In 1999, he submitted Slow Jams for the Xeric Grant and was awarded $5,000 to self-publish a second, expanded edition of 1,000 which came out in 1999 with a cover price of $4. In 2005, internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, a longtime fan, asked him to paint graphic sexual murals in the interior of Facebook's first Silicon Valley office, and in 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commissioned him to paint somewhat tamer murals for their next office. Although he thought the Facebook business model was "ridiculous and pointless," Choe chose to receive company stock in lieu of cash payment for the original Facebook murals. His shares were valued at approximately $200 million on the eve of Facebook's 2012 IPO. After holding several solo shows in San Jose and San Francisco, he was offered a solo exhibit at the Santa Rosa Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. He held his first New York solo exhibit, "Gardeners of Eden," in 2007 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea, and in 2008, he had his first UK solo exhibition, "Murderous Heart," in both the London and Newcastle locations of Lazarides Gallery, simultaneously. In 2008, with Harry Kim, he made an autobiographical documentary, Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe. First Jheel International Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].