Birk, Sandow

Soft-spoken artist from Seal Beach, California, best known to surfers for his wickedly funny and beautifully rendered versions of famous 18th-and 19th-century marine paintings. Birk's early work, as summarized by the Surfer's Journal in 1992, "hotwires art history and surfing." Birk graduated in 1988 from the Otis College of Art and Design; in 1990 he produced Outside Set at Malibu, an eight-by-10...