Drawing from prior installations that fused painting with nontraditional materials, New York-based artist Fabian Marcaccio re-imagines his dystopian visions in a mixed-media series focused on the activity of drawing. Dubbed "draftants" — a hybrid of "drawing" and "mutant" — the 19 new black-and-white works begin with synthetic panels that Marcaccio marks, carves, and combines with multimedia elements such as video monitors and strobe lights. In Global Zombie, the artist's furious gestures flesh out an AK-47 toting, skull-faced warrior, who spews a noxious cloud punctuated with a dollar sign. A brutal, colorless universe, Marcaccio's Draftants depict children, soldiers, and monsters trapped in horrendous violence; they stand out as digital-age descendants of Goya's Disasters of War, presenting nightmares of our "gangster-capitalist" era.

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Fabian Marcaccio has designed a 50-by-8-foot banner for the exterior of the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York for PINTA, the Contemporary Latin American Art Fair, which takes place November 16-20.