ERIC DROOKER was born on East End Avenue in 1958 and has lived in Lower Manhattan his whole life. A third generation New Yorker, his art combines the concrete reality of urban existence with visionary flights of imagination. He is the author of Street Posters and Ballads, and his work has appeared in World War Three Illustrated, the Nation, Spin, the Village Voice, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and many other places, among them the streets of his home city.
