Tanner Goldbeck currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Baltimore, he received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and continued studies at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic art in New Jersey. In 1998 Goldbeck relocated to Santa Barbara, California to work for the Powell Peralta skate company. While in Santa Barbara, he met several artists with similar backgrounds who formed a D.I.Y. artist’s group called, The Haley Street Collective. The success of those exhibitions led to invitations to organize events and show work in Los Angeles. His painting influences stem from years of commercial illustration blended with low brow and traditional art history. Comics, cars and skate culture are the base, conceptual thinking pushes the art forward.

In 2005, Goldbeck moved to Los Angeles to continue his studio painting and started working for West Coast Choppers in Long Beach. A member of the Los Angeles Art Association, he attributes his time in Los Angeles with his love of street art and LA art history. Goldbeck’s art has been shown in solo and group exhibitions around Los Angeles and internationally for over a decade. His work spans a range of multiple disciplines

and media. He considers himself a painter first and foremost, however, “The art goes wherever it needs to go.”