Andy Diaz (b.1993, Miami), a self-taught artist based in Hialeah, FL, draws influence from his everyday experiences, skateboarding, personal struggles and popular culture to make work that reveals the dialogue of his life. Diaz incorporates equal measures of tenderness and dark humor into the painted creatures and figures inhabiting his canvases. Rendered with spray paint, oils, acrylic, or a mix, Diaz's canvases alternate between hazy dreamscapes painted in subtle tones to more aggressive, tightly-painted scenes in day glow colors.