Background
Fluharty was born in 1962 in Santa Ana, California.
Fluharty was born in 1962 in Santa Ana, California.
He studied art during 11th and 12th grade at the Miami Valley Career Technology Center, in Clayton, Ohio. Fluharty learned acrylic paint at the School of Visual Arts and also attended classes at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Fluharty"s work has appeared on covers for Der Spiegel, Time, Mad, and The Weekly Standard, in The New York Times, United States. News & World Report, the Village Voice, and in books for children. He teaches drawing and oil painting online at Schoolism.com. Then he earned an associate degree at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
Then he moved to New York City where he trained for thirteen years with Ken Bald, who in the 1950s drew Doctor Kildare cartoons and other Marvel Comics.
Foreign eight years from 2002 until about 2010, he sought classical training for his new work in oil paint. His artistic heroes are Rembrandt and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
The family lives in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Fluharty is represented by Erica Rand Silverman.
His first major success came when Fluharty designed a cover for Mad magazine in 1996.
The New York Times then commissioned five caricatures of Jerry Lewis. "That really started it all," said Fluharty. From 2004 to 2008, Fluharty contributed five covers for Der Spiegel magazine.
His work was reproduced in the book and traveling show The Art of Der Spiegel: Cover Illustrations Over Five Decades.
Foreign The New York Times in 2013, he painted a portrait of Woody Allen with Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz—with the director towering over, to quote the author, these four "strong and memorable women" who had acted leading roles in Allen"s films. Fluharty and four advertising illustrators founded Pitch House, a company that creates storyboards.