Radical Canvas

Dawn ("Radical Canvas”) creates canvasses using mostly aerosol, acrylic, newspaper, printed elements, and found objects, to create pieces that reflect the cacophony of internal and external emotional interludes and chaos . While pieces vary in their inspiration, many focus on themes of mental health, neurodivergence, the longing to be seen, light emerging from darkness, and underlying them all, a reflection on where we find ourselves pulled to rest our focus and attention.

Commissions also available to honor any major life transition, including life purpose pivots, births, deaths, marriage, divorce, milestone birthdays, and more. Proud exhibitor at Raven’s Gallery, the Chocolate & Art show , DTLA ArtNight, Pancakes & Booze, and Le Petit Paris.

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Mixed media artwork featuring paper flowers in various colors arranged around torn newspaper clippings, with a painted background and a sketched figure of a person sitting with their head resting on their knees.

“Fires”

paint and newspaper on canvas with young graffiti artists painting a ray of 3-d newspaper flowers againt a night background with a newspaper moon

“963 Hz”

spray painted canvas featuring acrylic ray of colors emerging from printed spray can held by printed graffiti artist

“The Light”

A collage art piece depicting a cosmic scene with a moon, space spray paint, and elephants. Elephants are made from newspaper with books on their backs, standing on a black background. One elephant at the front appears to be speaking or singing into a megaphone, with orange and red accents on some elephants.
A collage artwork with the phrase 'Lost, have you seen me?' at the top. it features a sketch of a woman's face with wavy hair and closed lips, overlaid on a background of printed text. Below the sketch, there is a handwritten list on strips of paper with the words: 'Just the right, rant, admission, adore, care, I.e. green, anger, sex, communication, depression, dream'.

“Lost”

photo of close up of a flower in black and white, with gravel around the center and a red and yellow colored portion emerging

“Asphalt”

SOLD

Mixed media artwork featuring a large graphite sketch of a person's face with lips, a mounted full moon, a drawing of a child with curly hair holding a stick, a white and yellow patterned background, a quote by Howard Zinn about civil disobedience, and an artificial bird flying near metallic sculptural objects.

“Tu Joues Dans La Lune”

“Our Problem is Civil Obedience”

“Surge”

painted orange background with various stencils, a 3-d butterfly, and ash in lines throughout the middle

“Hold On”

canvas painted light blue with a printed photo of a subway train, 3-d wooden tracks, a drawing of a woman's face with mandala hair, a pigeon, a 3-d frame, a stencil of a fist, a printed quote, printed pigeons, and dirt

“Parallel Tracks”

canvas with pastel stencils, a printed boy, a 3-d pigeon, a printed moon, and a small gilded frame attached

“Why do You Worry?”

Mixed media art piece on a newspaper background featuring a black and white portrait of a woman, topped with a real red flower, a seashell, feathers, and tacks, with an abstract lightning bolt and handwritten text in the foreground.
A mixed media art piece featuring a blue-tinted skeleton of a running woman, with cassette tapes and cassette tape parts floating above her head against a bright yellow background with splashes of blue and orange. There is a vertical rectangular cutout with newspaper text on the right side, and an abstract black symbol at the bottom right corner.

“Running”

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