Stepan Lysenko

"Red Samurai", 58x84cm, canvas, oil, acrylic

With a red dog, 70x50cm, acrylic on canvas

Main in red, 78x54 cm

This large scale 76" x 90" mixed media canvas painting by XVALA features a Basquiat-style large red creature predominantly placed on the canvas against a light blue background. Other colors include varying blues, golds and black. Acrylic paint, spray paint and oil stick were used on a linen canvas. XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His 'Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and 'No Delete' used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...

Sometimes we dislike something or someone without really knowing why. Likewise, it is sometimes useful to check whether this "prejudice" is justified or not. This painting is made...