Curry Mendes was born in Beacon, New York and raised in Naples, Florida. While
attending Naples, High School, by his senior year was mostly attending Advanced
Placement Art Classes. Working mostly with watercolor and pencil he won multiple
awards and scholarships.

While attempting to honor his father’s wishes and not going to College for Fine Art,
he attended Ringling School of Art and Design with a Major in Interior Design. While
at Ringling Curry was selected for “Best of Ringling - Rendering - 1989 . He became
a top seller at the Ringling Art Fair two years in a row. Attending Ringling and having
regret with his career path choice, he was told by a teacher at Ringling that School
does not make someone an Artist and it is a talent that lies within, so just keep doing
art all the time and you will have all you seek.

Upon graduating Curry immediately moved to New York City. In order to pay the rent, he started his career in Interior Design which lasted about 5 years . Eventually the need to continue his education won the best of him, so he attended Columbia University for a certificate in computer science. Learning computers and all they have to offer, Curry began a career in digital illustrating and programming. Designing user interfaces for interactive education tools.

Starting his own company in 1999 to jump on the band wagon of the huge dot com business boom, success came easy. Using artistic skills to create customized pitches for big business. The dot com invasion imploded on itself in 2000. Not giving up Curry kept working his magic to no avail. Then, the infamous day of Sept 11, 2001. Being there and witnessing such an act left Curry packing and moving a bit more than an hour north to Beacon, New York. A small town on the verge of becoming a “beacon” of art with the opening of the largest contemporary art museum, the DIA.

After going to the local art supply house paints, brushes and canvases were extremely more expensive then he remembered. So with all the computer knowledge he went home to create using a digital medium. After much research on the value of art itself and this creative outlet, Curry researched the value of digital art and found an art dealer who said, “Chance of any of us being the next Andy Warhol are slim, people will buy your art because they love it, not for the value it might or might not offer.” Curry took those words to heart and kept creating one new piece of art after another.

After years of mastering software tools and then moving into the world of Advertising/Designing and Creating. Curry started using computers to generate ideas. Then the ideas started to come to life on the computer. Now the studio time was endless. The creations grew as technology grew. Technology offers wide format printing on museum quality canvas and amazing thick papers using archival deep hued inks. Digital Art is to Curry what his Acrylics and watercolors used to be. Now there are no limitations for size, platforms and there are endless palettes of color and clean up is as easy as a click of a button.

Curry is a storyteller, though portraiture. It is the people in our lives that make us truly wealthy. Without anyone to share a story there is no story to tell.