My name is Bart Powers and I was born in 1959 in Chicago, IL.

A self educated artist I Have been drawing since age the age of 8. I began doing my own concepts and selling them since 1979. In the beginning of my career in the early 80’s, I began doing work for Punk Rock bands where my abstract style evolved. This style can be seen in all of my paintings and illustrations to date. By the middle 80’s he included my love for Vintage Automobiles in my paintings and illustrations incorporating the gritty urban industrial I grew up with as a boy. After years of sending and submitting work I was accepted in 1992 by the Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago where my work is currently sold and exhibited. My work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, as well as having had articles in Raw Vision Magazine. I have pieces of art that were accepted as part of the permanent collection of the Art Brut Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. My work has also been shown in Paris at the Hall St. Pierre for one year, and has sold yearly in New York at the Pucks Center as well as around the world.