The Artist
Duane Flatmo (born 1957) is an American artist best known for his murals, label art and kinetic art sculptures in northern California. Flatmo has participated in many "kinetic sculpture races", including the Kinetic Grand Championship where he has been a regular competitor since 1982.
Flatmo has been referenced for his kinetic sculptures in Pedaling Art in Artful Jesters, a Book of Innovators and Visual Wit and Humor by Nicholas Roukes and was also featured in a film called It'll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth based on the Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt County, CA. As a result of that film, Duane Flatmo, along with fellow kinetic artists June Moxon and Ken Beidleman, traveled to London in 1999 to film an episode of Junkyard Wars, which then led to an invitation to participate in a Chinese version of the game produced by Zhongqi Sun from Dezhou City, China in 2004. He was also a finalist on the television program, America's Got Talent in August 2006, playing a guitar with an eggbeater and a weed whacker.
Flatmo lives in Eureka, California with his wife, fellow artist Micki Dyson Flatmo.