Canyon Castator

Canyon Castator

Canyon Castator makes large-scale paintings that satirically address our social reality, bringing together an exuberant blend of figures culled from the internet, modern media, politics and personal experience. Castator’s world is hyperbolic, saturated with dissonant characters, knowing symbolism and distorted narratives. His distinctive aesthetic is not tied down to one language but fuse digital and traditional mediums in a cacophony of psychedelic vibrance. 

Castator’s work explores our relationship with the digital, reflecting the unfiltered cornucopia of images and content found online. He executes preparatory drawings on the 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.

B. 1989 in Houston, Texas; lives and works in Los Angeles, California.