Illustration: Dex Fernandez. Good Morning HOBOS , detail, 2015. Acrylic, ink, embroidery, on a digital photograph Dex Fernandez is an artist that comes from the graffiti/street art tradition. His work is a creative collision of styles, colors, shapes, lines. He often uses his own digital photographs as a background to a whole panoply of information that is built up in layers onto the base photograph. These layers can and do consist of abstract pattern, religious symbols, body parts, cartoons, tattoos, to name just a few. Dex plays with these references as he also plays with larger ideas, such as the connection and disparity between high and low art, between history and biology, between beauty and crudeness, and between innocence and sexuality. Illustration: Dex Fernandez. All of a Sudden I miss Everyone , 2015. Acrylic, ink, embroidery, on a digital photograph Illustration: Dex Fernandez. ATM , 2015. Acrylic, ink, embroidery, on a digital photograph These are important combinations and...
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