He excelled at art in high school, then took art and design courses at Texas Christian University, but he withdrew without a degree in order to freelance as a sign painter. In 1987, on a whim, he moved to New York and found work in a commercial print shop. By the early 1990s, he had quit his job, vacated his apartment and a not-for-profit centre for unhoused artists in NYC, and she showed Dominguez’s work there until it closed in 1996. Thereafter, the artist was represented by American Primitive, operated by Anton’s husband Aarne Anton who would become his longtime art dealer. It was a happy chain of events for the artist who had his own particular beliefs about intentionality and fortune: “Often I make a suggestion, and it will appear,” he said. “If you want to get something, you’ve got to let go; you’ve got to give something in return. If you leave three pennies in a telephone coin-return slot – preferably heads up – you’ll find a quarter. Try it. It works.” {read}