Mississippi native Alex Warble is a painter, illustrator, designer and musician based in Memphis, TN. His murals may be seen in many promiment locations in the Memphis landscape, including the wall of The Hi-Tone on Poplar Avenue. He is a founding member of the band The Warble (http://www.myspace.com/thewarbles).

Editor BARD COLE writes: "The first painting I saw by Alex (besides the murals I had seen and -- in some cases -- noticed without knowing who had painted them) was a small piece made from paint and cut paper depicting a man in a parcel delivery uniform with purple cuban heels in a distinctive lush landscape reminiscent of Henri Rousseau. Above rolling hills and lollipop trees, a stout but well-marked FedEx jet plane soared. In Alex's profilic output, the influence of advertising art, folk art, and underground comic book drawing meld together into a unique style, marked by recognizable details of the city we both live in. Every Saturday morning, I sit and read in Overton Park, which, with its curvaceous terrain and ancient trees, is frequently depicted in Alex's paintings, not in the manner of a realistic landscape accurately reflecting its layout and features but as a magical Eden in which people, biomorphic lions, bears, and anthropomorphized marijuana cigarettes frolic and confront one another beneath star-dusted skies and the perpetual guardianship of FedEx planes."