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Red Bird aka Dave Hoker
Red Bird aka Dave Hoker
Picture of Dave
2025

RedBird
Dave Hoker is an artist from St Louis, Missouri. He received a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. He works in Print, Drawing, and Painting. The nickname Red Bird is also the name of his own small business, Red-Bird Plumbing, and is inspired by Dave's love of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.


While I wasn’t assigned the monitor RedBird at birth, unlike my other half, Pollard is my call sign.

I support myself as an artist by being a craftsman. As a master plumber, RedBird Plumbing not only allows me to sustain but bolsters and preserves without compromise my artistic endeavors.

Something different happens when you don’t have to sell your art, I am free to explore difficult or unpleasant subject matter that is not suitable or wanted for most living most living rooms