Christopher Villa Studied Art in High School and was part of the Young Artists of New York High School Art Tour in 1967 (Onteora High School) Mr Villa studied Theatre Arts, Dance, Film History and Media Production at Ventura College. He also attended Humboldt State University for further study in Theater, Dance, Prosthetic Make-up and Film Production, He designed Make-up, Sets and Costumes, Wrote, Produced and Directed for The Crystal Egg Children’s Theatre in Ashland Oregon. Mr. Villa worked as a professional Theatre Artist for more than thirty five years, performing, writing, directing, designing make-up and stage weapons, and choreographing fight sequences for 300 productions, including Operas, Ballets, and Film at Professional and Educational Theatres. He has taught Movement for Actors, Theater Games and Stage Combat at major Universities and Children’s Theatre programs.

Mr. Villa continued to practice his Art in between theater gigs, but returned to Art with more fervor following a nearly fatal Automobile accident. While incapacitated, he began a series of Pen and Marker Goth Portraits titled Dracula’s Daughters, and a series of graphic Eyes, Skulls and Beasties for cards and stationary. At this time he began to collect and edit more than thirty-five years of poetry and assembled the results in nine volumes, each dealing with a specific theme or genre. Seven of these volumes have been published. He has been published in Rouge Et Noir, and Science-Fiction in SF ezine.

Following more health problems that required him to do less Theatre work, he turned once again to Art and began experimenting with Painting, Steampunk Busts and Sculptures, and Multi-Media Dioramas, including Cigar Box Art. He has produced a series of Skull and Crossed Bones Pirate/Steampunk style paintings, pins and graphics. The most recent addition to his arsenal of Art is the UFO/Retrorocket series and Custom Order Fantasy/Sci-Fi sculptures, including Gargoyles, Fairies, and Monsters.

Mr. Villa has shown his work at the Huntington Beach Art Museum, Ruin Hollywood, Swamprat Variety Show, 2nd St Cigar Store and Art Gallery, the Long Beach Experience, the World Renaissance Faire, Eye of Bast Shoppe, Ninjas VS Clowns Show, Combat Con, Clockwork Alchemy Steampunk Convention, and a host of other galleries and Special Events. He was a featured Artist on LA Horror.com Website 2013.

Mr. Villa has two CDs, a Solo Album of Space Music Instrumentals: The Electric Universe, and an album of dark Romantic songs with The Personas.

From the Artist:

In 9th grade I had a great group of Teachers at Onteora High School, that gave me a broad range of exposure to Artists and Techniques. Our proximity to New York City allowed them to take the entire art department on field trips to galleries and museums where I saw masterpieces and artists from every style and period. I knew in grade school that I wanted to be an Artist and the exposure to such great Art, crystalized it for me.

I like a dark sense of humour in my Art, since I was born on E.A. Poe’s birthday and am both naturally inclined that way and the innocent victim of my older Brother’s advanced tastes in Movies, Art, History, and Literature, which made it impossible to look at the world with the eyes of a child. I try to use as many of my skills as possible rather than just work mostly in a couple of areas and I focus on using the materials  and letting them tell me what the end result will be.