Canyon Castator: Cannon Fodder
"This body of work is an attempt to...lay bare the ways mass media uses spectacle to instill foundational ideas about power, virtue, and violence, particularly in the imagination of young men."
A solo exhibition of new paintings by Canyon Castator, 'Cannon Fodder' is an off-site installation presented during Frieze Week Los Angeles, in collaboration with Diane Rosenstein Gallery.
CANYON CASTATOR: CANNON FODDER
FEBRUARY 22 - MARCH 10, 2025
Mohilef Studios Washington
720 E 18th Street
Los Angeles 90021
Castator's solo show features five large-scale paintings that use satire to address our social reality, bringing together an exuberant blend of figures culled from the internet, modern media, politics and personal experience.
Canyon Castator (USA, b. 1989) balances digital and traditional painting techniques on the canvas. He makes preparatory drawings on an iPad, where he articulates the composition, meticulously arranging the figures. Some of the characters are then printed on the canvas with a distinctive Claymation aesthetic, while others are realistically rendered in oil.
Canyon Castator has received solo exhibitions with Stems Gallery, Ibiza, Spain (2022); Carl Kostyál, Stockholm (2021) and London (2018); and Postmasters, NYC (2019 & 2018). He was included in group shows at Volery Gallery, Dubai (2024); Library Street Collective, Detroit (2020); The Pit, Los Angeles (2020); Louis B James, New York; and the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany. He is the cofounder and director of Mohilef Studios in DTLA. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
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