Jamie Wineman (B.1984)

​Professionally known as “WolfGangGang” — is a multidisciplinary, self taught artist whose work fuses Detroit ferocity with the discipline of a classically trained creator. Raised in the Detroit suburbs and educated at the esteemed Cranbrook Kingswood School, Wineman grew up inside a creatively immersive household that forged both his creative instincts and his uncompromising work ethic.

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Before emerging as a painter, Wineman spent more than 15 years in the music industry as a producer and performer, building a reputation for high-voltage intensity and fearless experimentation. But by 2022, after years of burnout, destructive habits, and the collapse of the touring world during the pandemic, he hit rock bottom. Confronting his substance addiction head-on, he entered recovery—a turning point that dismantled everything he thought he knew about himself and forced him to rebuild from the ground up.

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In that rebuilding came clarity: the music business no longer aligned with the man he was becoming. Wineman stepped away from it entirely and poured himself into painting as both a new discipline and an essential lifeline in his sobriety. What began as a diversion quickly became a central pillar of his recovery—a space where chaos could be shaped, confronted, and ultimately transformed. As a result, his work now actively navigates neuroplasticity born from trauma and addiction, exploring how the brain rewires itself in the pursuit of healing, identity, and recovery in all its forms.

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Working out of his Winnetka, IL studio, Wineman constructs a universe where humor, brutality, nostalgia, and myth collide. His influences stretch from 80s slasher cinema and Detroit industrial architecture to Northern Michigan wilderness, pop-culture folklore, and the raw emotional electricity of live performance. His signature “Scary Bear” figures and neon-charged compositions channel the immediacy of street art through the lens of fine-art formalism—commanding color, deliberate texture, and symbolic storytelling.

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Every painting carries the pulse of someone who survived himself. Wineman’s work is confident, cinematic, and visceral—anchored by the precision of a disciplined artist and the perspective of a man who rebuilt his life through creation. What began as a forced pivot during global shutdown and personal collapse has become a rapidly expanding body of work that is unmistakably, unapologetically WolfGangGang: bold, unfiltered, and impossible to look away from.