ANDY
OMEGA

American-born pop artist Andy Omega began silk-screening T-shirts, posters and stickers at age 14. In 1994, he produced a shirt bearing his own image and the words “Ain’t it sweet” in a circular path. The piece became an early commercial success and laid the groundwork for a broader campaign of printed matter and street-level distribution.

By 1998, Omega was circulating stickers and punk-rock buttons carrying a new logo. The campaign spread through New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, France, Italy, Hong Kong and Tokyo—establishing the geographic and cultural range that would continue to shape The Stuff of Legends.

His first solo exhibition, Window of God, arrived in 2003 as a stereoscopic 3D photo environment. Omega taught himself to work with dual-film stereoscopic imagery and built an installation of 3D projections, large-format prints, glasses and sculptural elements. At a moment when stereoscopic presentation was largely dormant, the show treated the format as something strange, physical and newly alive.

The project led to work within the art department at Tilly’s and helped fund two art galleries. After the 2008 financial crash, Omega shifted operations to New York, continuing a practice that moves between image-making, design, cultural artifacts and street-level mythology.

Omega’s work has entered private and institutional collections, including a collaboration acquired by Cornell University. The archive continues under The Stuff of Legends as an evolving body of images, objects and stories.