The Origin Story!

Before moving to Charm City and going to art school, I lived in a small, middle of nowhere town near Rochester, NY. While there, I had absolutely no training or focus in the arts at all, and I spent most of my time snowboarding, playing soccer, watching movies, or listening to music while playing video games. Senior year of high school, I was involved in a snowboard crash that caused me to go "Hey wait, I'm not going to be happy doing this!" - so I took a second to re-evaluate where I was going, and decided to try something that I've never tried before, creating art.

Over the next three years, I bounced around majors like it was my job - going between Graphic Design, Illustration (where I lasted a whole two weeks!), Architectural Design, and Sound Art… I finally landed myself in printmaking, where I started to teach myself how to illustrate. Soon after that, I tried screenprinting, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Fast forward to the beginning of 2019- I leave school to pursue a career in art and music, and have been pushing on since. RaileyBacePrints has since evolved into a full illustration, design, and creative direction studio - being manned by myself (the art department) and a small team of incredible people who keep the wheels turning and things moving every day.

Select musical clients Include: Elton John, PHISH, Pearl Jam, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Electric Forest Music Festival, Chris Stapleton, Willie Nelson, Primus, The Nations & Proximity, AEG Presents, LiveNation, Billy Strings, Mt. Joy, Orville Peck, Eric Church, Trey Anastasio (Of PHISH), The National, Brittany Howard, Amos Lee, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Sturgill Simpson, Twiddle, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Houndmouth & More.

Select clients of other media include: Tom Segura, Spoke Art, Nickelodeon, Bottleneck Gallery.

EXHIBITIONS

“‘Anime in LA’: A Tribute to Western Animation” Group Exhibition, Spoke Art, Los Angeles, CA. June 2023

“‘Good Day, Sir!’ : A special 50th Anniversary Celebration of Willy Wonka.” Group Exhibition, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA. Mar. 2021

"Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember." Solo Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art Gateway Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Oct. - Nov. 2018

“IPCNY National Print-Fest” Pop-Up group exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY. October 2018.

"New Prints", Group Exhibition, Advanced printmaking work from MICA, UARTS and Tyler, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA. Group Show, February 2018.