About

William Carlos Johnstone (b.2001) is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice that includes Illustration, Painting, and Graphic Design. Growing up in Los Angeles, he was exposed to punk rock and skateboard culture at a young age. The d.i.y ethos and the handmade aesthetics of those cultures continue to influence the way that Johnstone thinks about and makes his artwork. The work simultaneously combines bright colors and cartoon-like characters while also maintaining a punk rock edge that aims at speaking truth to power. Although punk rock and skateboarding dominated his childhood, Johnstone now has a wide array of influences that he pulls from including art history, vintage advertising, popular culture, found photography, and baseball.