Ghost, aka Cousin Frank, was born in the Bronx in the mid 1960s and developed his unique formal technique through his involvement in the New York City Subway Graffiti Movement, where he became recognized for his original style and vibrant colour combinations - along with his strong sense of satire. Unlike most othersin hte movement known for their artistry, he never planned his work out ahead of time, and always worked improvisationally. Because the artist views his roots in graffiti as a matter of survival, he has never been fully comfortable with an unmediated trasferring of what he did on the trains onto canvas - or into galleries.

The development of a drawing and painting style that bears the influence of his past has allowed his to make a transition between both worlds. The artist's many years dedicated to the deformation of Standard English letters, along with his skill as a draughtsman and inventor, have evoked possibilities of cartoon-like alteration of meaning that both amuse and disturb.

This technique of alteration has continued to inform the artist'stwork throughout his career, and influenced his creation of a distinctive vocabulary of forms. His highly detailed pen and ink, graphic drawing style has the spontaneity and risk of calligraphy, and his paintings' explosions of colour and energetic exteriority are reined into tightly balanced compositions. Both possess the same distinctive undulating linear syle and animated, organic forms - or deformations - otherworldly landscapes, and relentless bithing wit. In both his paintings and drawings, the work is process-based and there is little room for error. These constraints have been balanced out by the artists well-honed skills as a colourist, and dark and sometimes playful humour of his figuration and characters, who pay homage to masters of surrealism and underground comics, but are completely the artist's own, the interior workings and unworkings of his unconscious.