PREVIOUSLY WORKED AS GLOBAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF DISNEY AND UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. STONE’S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN: The New Yorker, ITALIAN VOGUE, PRINT MAGAZINE, COMMUNICATIONS ARTS, & SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS.
Stone has produced movie and music global industry logos, branding, packaging, print advertising and outdoor marketing. Theatrical Properties: Jurasic Park, Lion King, Water World, Little Rascals, Kung Fu Panda, Nightmare Before Christmas. Iconic Music Artists: Madonna, Garth Books, Barbara Streisand, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses.
Stone is the winner of many awards and his work has spanned over ten verticals, including retail, fashion, automotive, healthcare, tech, beverage, theatrical, home entertainment and classic properties, in addition to sports branding and merchandise projects for Anaheim Angels, Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Dodgers, & ESPN.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I work primarily in silkscreen and mixed-media painting, combining photographic source material with layered screen prints, acrylic, and hand-applied textures. The work favors bold, flat fields of color and high-contrast graphic shapes that translate archival portraits into contemporary, visual statements.

My practice examines the mechanics of celebrity and the visual language that sustains it. I present portraits of mid‑century cultural figures to explore how repetition, color, and scale shape collective memory. Influenced by Pop art and mid‑century advertising, the series conveys how an image’s surface—its smile, hairstyle, wardrobe—becomes cultural shorthand, simultaneously familiar and manufactured.

Technically, I reduce photographs into simplified planes of light and shadow, then rebuild them through successive screen layers. Intentional misregistration, halftone texture, and hand interventions interrupt mechanical reproduction, so each piece reveals both the photograph’s authority and the maker’s touch. Scale and cropping are used to amplify particular expressions and to alter the viewer’s sense of intimacy with the subject.

My style and execution, have been influenced by Andy Warhol, having worked with him on his American Myth series launch.

Across the corpus, recurring motifs—iconic profiles, stylized smiles, retro palettes—reveal how nostalgia functions visually. The work neither preserves myth nor demolishes it; it exposes the processes by which public images are produced, circulated, and remembered.