Cote Escriva 'Untitled' Print Available

Artist: Cote Escriva
Title: Untitled
Medium: 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 17.3 x 8.6 Inches
Edition: 70
Price: $99

  

Cote Escriva is a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1982 who fuses street attitude with cartoon nostalgia to create paintings, prints and collectible sculptures that feel both mischievous and masterfully crafted. Trained in industrial design, he spent his early career in graphic studios before stepping away to launch a personal project that could channel his twin loves of American pop culture and underground comics. Working now from his hometown, he produces acrylic paintings on wood where familiar animated icons are stretched, scarred or re costumed into darkly comic characters that stare down the viewer with bulbous eyes and razor sharp grins.

His process begins as loose ink sketches made while listening to punk records; these rough ideas are scanned, refined and enlarged, then translated by hand onto shaped panels or toy prototypes using bold flat colour and meticulous line work. The finished pieces often carry titles that wink at childhood memories while hinting at adult anxiety, a balance that has earned him solo shows in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Tokyo and Singapore and placements in major art fairs from Urban Break to Art Taipei. Despite global demand, Escriva keeps editions small and paints every surface himself, believing that the slight imperfections of a human wrist give his universe its soul.

By merging skateboard graphics, lowbrow surrealism and the visual language of Saturday morning television, Cote Escriva offers a mirror in which innocence and rebellion coexist, proving that a cartoon can still bite.