Grip Face.
Works by artist David Oliver, better known as Grip Face.
Like a significant number of artists belonging to the millennial generation, Grip Face initiated his visual and aesthetic education: rollerblading in the streets, reading comics, watching anime, listening to music and thoroughly studying book, cd, and fanzine covers.
Under the auspices of the 1990s American underground wave, the graphics used by the Punk movement in the 1980s and the Asian naive art, Grip Face dived into the initiation rite of graffiti plastics as well as in its subsequent deconstruction; very early on, the insurrection of the media itself allowed him to understand art as a means to survive. Drawing and painting turned into weapons of mass destruction against the anxiety of the contemporary world. And thus began a multifaceted artistic career that would revolve mainly around constantly reexamining the very contemplation of his own pleiad.
With this vocation to being an artist-engineer, Grip Face bridges the gap between contexts, elements, techniques, spaces, and people.
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