Jerry Slayton is just one of the artist who will be featured at the Columbia Museum of Art for the Post Graffiti art show. Born Dec. 6, 1982 in Birmingham, Alabama I began studying art in high school and developed a natural attraction to graphic images found on album covers, illustration, etc. Entered college with the intention of studying architecture but soon became more interested in creating the visual and less interested in the science of structure. Finished my degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where I studied collage/painting and graphic design. Influences range from 1920's german abstraction, to 1960s assemblage, to 60-70s pop art, to 80's post-graffiti. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of South Carolina where I combine my interests in stencil and vector images with media such as video, animation, and sticker art. My work hopes to provoke questions regarding authority and socio-economic structures. images included are two digital images from 2009 and two vinyl sticker pieces from 2010 CLICK HERE TO SLIDESHOW