About The Artist:
Social purpose, unlikely imagery and surges of creativity are the common thread that weave the tapestry of Los Angeles artist Dog Byte’s work together.
His inventive juxtapositions of assembled visuals illustrate the vulnerabilities and sometimes failings of our humanity and society as a whole. Dog Byte addresses these issues with digestible, clever concepts and a great understanding of the street as a medium for his work.
Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Dog Byte’s first collection was entitled “Pull Your Peace”.
With works like “Almost American.,” a stenciled triptych depicting three grenades colored pink, white and baby blue and “Disco Apache,” where an Apache attack chopper ferries a disco ball through a baby blue sky, he stripped these weapons of their destructive intent.
His images are deceptively simple, but upon closer inspection, Dog Byte’s disciplined use of detail informs each image with a sense of poetic irony. “Singing in The Rain” projects the end of innocence. This post-modern stencil of Gene Kelly from the classic film shows him soaring through the air, his face trapped inside a gas mask.
As the Los Angeles street art scene gains momentum, Dog Byte continues to display his work on the streets and in galleries. Stencils entitled “Step and Repeat,” “Auto-Tycoon,” “Boy Bomb,” “Sledgehammer Girl” and “Bark Softly and Carry a Big Head” continue to build upon the theme of found hope and innocence in a failing modern world.
