Sas Christian
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Appropriating the wide-eyed waif imagery of anime, painter Sas Christian has created her own iconography, which is several shades more disturbing than the popular Japanese cartoons. "We Are the People," for instance, features an enormous-eyed gamine pointing a bloodied finger at her head like Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle. In "Watching," another huge-eyed woman makes the threatening, split-fingered hand signal for "I'll be watching you." The London-born painter, who moved to South Florida with artist husband Colin Christian in 1992, has become a sensation in the lowbrow art world, appearing in shows locally and nationwide, and showing up in the pages of The New York Times and lowbrow bible Juxtapoz. Recently, the artist was one of 50 women tapped by Hasbro to design a special 20th-anniversary My Little Pony; her version of the 18-inch figure appeared in a Catholic schoolgirl outfit, panties peeking saucily from beneath her plaid skirt. Toyota also commissioned Christian to paint a version of her husband's racy sculpture "Satan's Snack Cake," which will appear in an ad campaign for Scion beginning in October, just in time for Halloween.
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