My name is Warren Gebert.
I was born in Yonkers, New York.
My dad was an amateur craftsman who always seemed to be working on an art project. One Halloween, I remember him fashioning some chicken wire and slathering it with paper mâché. I had no idea what he was doing until he painted them.
What emerged were absurdly oversized cartoon characters that fit over your head and rested on your shoulders.
One year, my brother and I dressed up as Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. My dad even created the outfits. We looked great.
There was a bit of a problem seeing where you were walking because the eyeholes were about a foot away from your face, but we managed to make our way around unscathed.
I can still recall how it smelled. It smelled like… creativity.
I’d have to say that was a bit of an influence.
Following my senior year in high school, I sang in a band, and two members attended the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Panicking a bit about life after high school, I decided to give The School of Visual Arts in NYC a shot. It was a bit of a lark, but I cobbled together a portfolio for my admissions interview.
It turns out I had an aptitude. They accepted me, and I did pretty well. While still a student, I was awarded a commission to illustrate a piece for Time magazine. That’s not a bad start.
Over the years, I’ve created illustrations for almost every major periodical and Fortune 500 company in the country. My client list also includes work abroad, and I was one of the first Western artists to be published in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. I was asked to illustrate primers about the benefits of investing capital in alternative economic systems.
Here are some samples of my illustration work.
In the field, I am known as a “Conceptual Illustrator,” meaning the emphasis is mainly on the ideas, and the artist must be visually clever while delivering the concept.
The goal has always been to have the ideas appeal universally.
I am also a Children’s Book Author –
A lifelong lover of animals, I’ve done hundreds of illustrations for CHAI –Concern for Helping Animals in Israel.
I was once a committed and confirmed New Yorker, but I left the state a decade ago to care for my elderly mother.
I am now an accidental Floridian residing on The Treasure Coast, enjoying painting and the endless summer.