**early life and influences** ashley bickerton, a barbadian-born american contemporary artist, left an indelible mark on the art world with his mixed-media artworks that seamlessly combined photographic, painterly elements, and industrial object assemblages. born in 1959 in barbados, bickerton's early life was marked by frequent relocations due to his father's research work, eventually settling in hawaii in 1972. **artistic career and the neo-geo movement** bickerton's artistic career flourished in new york city for over a decade before he finally settled on the island of bali in 1993. his as…