Ian Gurvitz

I am a TV writer living in Los Angeles. I have written three books, made an indie movie, and written for various magazines and websites on contemporary culture, politics, and religion.

Art and photography have always been passions for me.

These drawings are accidental flights of fantasy – spontaneous, right brain meanderings with a mind of their own. I started drawing in TV writers’ rooms. During rewrites I would doodle on my script pages, either to keep my mind alive or to keep my head from exploding. Anyone who’s been in a room at midnight, staring at a sea of blank faces all searching for the same insight, knows this experience. Most of the drawings were tossed out at the end of the night, along with stacks of cold pizza but, occasionally, one would take on a distinct character, or style, or evoke a mood or emotion. Those were interesting enough to keep, and eventually enough of an incentive to buy sketch pads and pens, and pursue it outside of work. I’m not an artist. Having read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and taken some art classes, I knew the trick was to draw without trying to draw -- to let go of any desire for a specific result and just let it happen. The “not-do- ing” of it became an interesting exerci...

B.A. Ithaca College -- Philosophy
Studied for Masters in Buddhist Studies at Colgate University, which included living for a year in Japan.