Eric Nicholas Bullock: painter, multimedia artist, musician, nomad and trapeze artist was born on December 3rd, 1989 in a trap house in the Louisiana swamps. Bullock recalls being liberated from this drug-induced marshland after a SWAT raid rescued him and his sisters. He was soon relocated to Indiana after being adopted by NASA scientist Gary Bullock, a man who built weapons systems for the Navy and the defense department.

By creating and sharing art on Myspace, Eric left this way of life at 18, seeking something other than the rigorous military existence in which he was brought up. Bullock made his way to San Bernardino first, via traveling and partying, hitchhiking, train hopping and getting rides from truckers at truck stops. Soon after his arrival, he met a couple of ex circus folk who gave him a job as an instructor and operator of a trapeze rig. In 2014 Bullock met Lee, a prolific street artist working in Venice and who was the genesis of Bullock’s move to Los Angeles.

He left his previous trapezing lifestyle and took to the streets of LA; painting, living, and breathing in the urban landscape. Los Angeles - a macromicrocosm of people, cars, mopeds, Lime scooters, yelling and laughter, lined with buildings and palm trees while radiating smog and sunshine through brilliant, graffitied alleyways with flowers peeking out of cracks in the sidewalk - mapped the urban landscape and, in turn, Eric’s sensibilities. His work, frantic yet settled, a beautiful distillation of a life lived on the fringes; art existing and forming in concert with the city’s weird, nearly aimless and unyielding pulse.