Ivan Gugel-Dawson is an Oak Park, Illinois based painter who experiments with oils, acrylics, watercolors, physical and digital sculpture, video art, and more.He’s been working on art since he was a little baby boy, scrawling arcane scritch scratch on spare cardboard and other found objects whenever he got a free moment. Since then, Gugel-Dawson has amassed an impressive body of work spanning a multitude of disparate yet cohesive styles ranging from haunted surrealism to vibrant photorealism.In the last 10 years, he’s shown at Rubberneck Gallery. In 2017, he published ISNXO, a 75-page avant-garde comic which exemplifies his cryptic knack for bizarro symbology, dark humor, and raw emotion.