Born in 1935, Sacramento, California. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the Sacramento City College. From 1958 he taught at various institutions and between 1962-3 began a series of garishly coloured super-heroes taken from comic strips, using a thick pigment. In 1963 he was included in a collective exhibition in Pop Goes the East at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.

In 1964 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York. In 1965 he developed Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products. In 1966 he exhibited at the Galerie Ricke, Kassel and in 1969 was represented in the exhibition Human Concerns at the Whitney Museum, New York. He appeared at the Pop Art Exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1974.

Since 1980 he has taught painting at the California State University and lives in Oakland, California.