Known as the onetime star of "Neo Geo," Ashley Bickerton, a resident of Bali, Indonesia where he was born, later switched to hyper-realist large scale painting. His media are wide ranging and include in his words "everything from bubblegum and cigarette butts to traditional oil painting on panels."

For many years a New York artist, Bickerton settled in the late 1990s in Bali, where, according to available reports, he divides his time between surfing and focusing on his artwork which includes recent pieces, Jack Blaylock, an airbrushed portrait of a local hodaddy, and Nia-Toni, which depicts a jungle Venus given the face of the artist's son. Both images are surrounded by an orderly montage of flotsam collecte...