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Greg 'Craola' Simkins 'Piper's Pass' -
Greg
'Craola'
SimkinsGreg 'Craola' Simkins brings the viewer into his personal mythology by depicting beloved cartoon characters from the mid and late 20th century, childhood fairy tales, and American commercial imagery mixed with urban graffiti aesthetics.
The result is striking and beautiful paintings that evoke nostalgic memories of Sunday mornings eating sweet breakfast cereal whilst watching cartoons. This narrative unites a collective consciousness of bittersweet innocence. He combines recognizable cultural elements using dream logic across his compositions, a direct inheritance from surrealism's emphasis on dream states.
Craola tells modern, complex adult fairy tales while retaining a youthful, playful, and sarcastic tone.
Craola is a native Californian living and working in the South Bay.
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