Artist bio:

Joseph Valentino was born in San Diego, CA in 1975 and taugh himself to draw at age 4. He never paid attention in the majority of his high school classes during his junior and senior years and somehow still managed to graduate. Attended community colleges in Portland, Oregon and Tucson, Arizona studying printmaking, life drawing and print design. Has been keeping a blog (evenindreamswefail.tumblr.com) documenting day to day life, sketches, short stories and thought poems since May of 2010. When not drawing, he also records and performs music under the moniker Neglect (soundcloud.com/neglectsound) and has been releasing material of this project since 2005. This is his fourth solo show.