Photo credit Victoria Vassal

Ali Vassal is a conflict artist who works in the style of paleolithic cave painters, graffiti artists and bathroom stall etchers to create mural-like works. Vassal creates “billboards” with the intent to be dug up in future landfills as a true visual history of our age.

Continuing in the tradition of painters like Leon Golub, Goya, Picasso and Boris Lurie, Vassal’s subjects are victims of human violence transformed into saints  in cartoon-like mythologies.

Vassal views human events as an alien anthropologist, translating historic events into shamanistic panels.

Vassal lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.