Sickid

The New Folk

Sickid is a young, Los Angeles-based graffiti artist and painter, best known for littering LA with an ever-changing cast of cartoon characters and situations, most notable for his work on billboards. His fine art painting includes Angeleno folk art, comics and the irreverent, as well as subjects in a more autobiographical realm. His depiction of scenes growing up around the Catholic Church, the naive painting styles of immigrant neighbors, street characters, and other untrained and raw influences hat also hint at a style influenced by the likes of Neckface and Barry McGee, and has evolved into a uniquely vibrant, colorful universe of its own. He debuted at Superchief Gallery LA in July 2019 with his first exhibition, Smile! You're on Camera, followed by a second solo show with them in Miami in December 2020.

William Dunleavy: When did you get interested in making art, and how have you seen yourself and your style change since you started out?

Sickid: I don’t know. I don’t want to say it was when I was born, but for sure when I was a little kid, I was interested in art. I was always into cartoons, and redrawing them. I liked drawing stuff from Cartoon Network, Dexter, Jimmy Neutron, the Simpsons, and PowerpuffGirls. “Him” from PowerpuffGirls definitely made me sexually confused. As a kid, I loved drawing wrestlers and toys, so I guess that was really my first form of art.