Dewey

Saunders

Dewey Saunders is a highly regarded artist whose collages are characterized by intricate layering and psychedelic hues. Saunders' creations have been featured as album art for numerous musicians including Future, Anderson Paak, and Turnstile. In addition to his musical contributions, Saunders has also lent his imaginative designs to a diverse range of clients, including Ray-Ban, Vanity Fair, and Vans. Saunders work is a promising example of the growing presence of contemporary collage as a widely celebrated phenomenon in culture and design.

Collage is my main medium of visual expression and serves as a sort of bridge between art and design for my practice. The actual act of collaging is a different mind state in which I attempt to step back and let my subconscious take over so I believe this way of making art is also a method of exploring one’s own mind and thoughts. The results can be quite extraordinary with references to all kinds of historical time lines and cultural events coexisting together in a surreal dream like state.

Dewey Saunders

For Florida ­born, LA ­based visual artist Dewey Saunders the “medium” is the message. In true internet era fashion Saunders has created an identity for himself that is not based on delivering a single product in a single medium repeatedly. Instead Dewey has a vision, and a style born of the various sensibilities of the top end of the millenial age spectrum, and he is constantly adapting his work to his surroundings and moving. In his works various media such as collage, illustration, and computer ­based graphic design all come together to form a visual vocabulary that speaks volumes on culture, history, and imagination. He was around before the internet, and he has embraced its flourishing to create work that resonates with folks who appreciate old, new, and especially both.

His sensibilities are contemporary, but his influences exceed the trends of today. His work is an ever unfolding series of images that embrace hip hop’s values, and champion a tropical psychedelia that only South Florida could inspire. In Saunders’ work the spectacle merges with an all ­seeing eye that roams like a tumbleweed through the vast sea of images that is the web, and looking becomes a central element of creation. The result is a visual aesthetic that considers everything, but only focuses on a few things, and does so with such adaptability that Dewey’s refined vocabulary can speak any language, and be heard in any setting. Through his work Dewey shows us a cohesive way to see and participate in the world that the Internet has created for us.  

Zach Moldof

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Dewey Saunders was born in Florida and is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

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