His practice was influenced by his many years as the studio assistant to Ed Ruscha, who encouraged him to find his voice and pursue his singular vision. Steeped in the Southern California traditions of light and space, cool school, and synchromism, Guffogg is a painter of lyrical abstraction — his works fuse color, movement, spirit, and form into a sophisticated whole. Guffogg recently had a retrospective of his work at the Academy of Fine Arts Museum St. Petersburg, Russia.This exhiibition is also now traveling to the Museum of Modern Art Baku, Baku, Azerbijian, The Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, and at Palais de Tokyo Museum, Paris, France.