ACC Global Series - D*Face

As part of the Dual Year UKMX 2015, All City Canvas in collaboration with British Council Mexico, brought the English street artist D*Face to Mexico City to create an amazing mural. The entire side of a building was covered with the characteristic Pop-Art style of the artist, depicting the Mexican folk image of “La Catrina”. 

Dean Stockton aka D*Face has been at the forefront of the urban art and one of the main figures of the movement for over a decade. Equally active on the streets as well as in his studio, the London-born artist is best known for his pop-inflected body of work that critiques the modern world, in particular, consumerism and the American Dream. His imagery delivers a viewer the moral dilemma, embrace or reject, laugh or deny. Some of his early influences included Shepard Fairey’s famous Obey Giantcampaign, Jim Phillips’ skate culture, hip-hop and punk rock music, and popular animated cartoons. By rethinking, editing and reversing imagery drawn from decades of materialistic consumption – currency, advertising and comic books, the artist subverts these now iconic motifs, cultural figures, and genres in order to comment upon our conspicuous society. DFace constructed the term aPOPcalyptic to describe his artworks, which can be seen in a variety of different media applying his playful, tongue-in-cheek imagery with anti-establishment values.