Michael John Straub
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Michael John Straub (1970-2004) artist and printmaker. Originally from Clifton Park, New York 1979-1989 and Amherst, New Hampshire 1971-1979, he studied at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Straub created thousands of unique paintings and tens of thousands of prints and lithographs using a variety of techniques, including abstract and pop art, which he showed at various art museums and galleries in the upstate New York area, including The Albright Knox Art Gallery, as well as several art festivals each year, including Buffalo's Allentown and Elmwood art festivals. Straub was a resident artist at The Buffalo Arts Studio. Buffalo's bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants, and streets are still filled with his murals, sketches, and graffiti. Straub was also an avid skateboarder, photographer, musician, and poet. Straub's drumming, washboard and jew's harp can be heard on tracks 2 and 7 of Oulde Pound's 1998 release "Sounds of the Elma Flatlands" He moved toSan Diego, California in December of 2002 where he spent the last year and a half of his life. Straub died unexpectedly of heart failure brought on by an asthma attack on February 23, 2004 in West Hollywood, California.
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