Robert Hernandez, 31

Hernandez used to stay at home reading comic books while his brother and cousins were out making graffiti in the streets of Los Angeles. Now images from graffiti, comic books, Disney cartoons, CNN, and fashion magazines swirl together in his drawings on wood panels as if in a fever dream.

"It's like news sources," Hernandez explains. "One story is overtaken by another story is overtaken by another. It's about the saturation of information." When a Disney-type figure leans over bombing victims in one work, or the giant sunglasses on a model echo the lines of a cartoon in another, pointed associations make that information coalesce into haunting commentaries.