The Con Collection is a platform for artists and collectors. Named for the kinship between early 20th century con men and the contemporary street art world, we features a growing roster of cutting-edge artists with weird and beautiful pieces. From urban legends to emerging artists, we showcase the unique perspectives of artists who use art to communicate with and process the world around them.
“and if they don’t like it… we do it anyway.”
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we do it anyway
an exploration of soft, and hard, power
A self-taught artist whose love of street art developed out of a natural combination of wanderlust, insomnia, and a seriously tight budget, Doverin’s style is especially informed by her sexuality and experiences traveling alone. Her use of BDSM- and fetish-themed images lures you in, but it's the way she upturns expected power dynamics with a wink that really sticks with you.
Doverin is a deeply silly, queer, gorgeous artist who takes images created by and for the male gaze and re-centers them for her own stupid fun. Tanks of World War II, American Interiors, and Erotic Photography photo books and vintage Playboy magazines are meticulously cut by hand and glued together in physical collages, copied, enlarged and enhanced with neon spray paint, gold leaf, hand made stamps, shower curtain, and just about anything else that looks cool to become colorful mixed-media pieces. View her original collages here.
Her art has been found in New York, London, New Orleans, Portland, Montreal, Paris and beyond. She is currently based in Toronto.
By Doverin
Hello, Barbara. A diptych featuring a collage pasted onto wood board with spray paint, paint marker, gold leaf, washi tape, stamp & ink.
Feel reassuringly unsettled as the lab coat dudes peer out from the piles of babydolls, and wonder whether it’s weirder to have posed an adult woman with the dolls in the first place.
2 pieces, 12x24” each
By Doverin
Striking collage featuring a man wearing a BDSM mask and holding a crop, being attended to by a couple of women coded as grandmotherly. Finished with spray paint, film, pieces of a shower curtain it has incredible dimension.
18 x 20”
By Doverin
Stunning BDSM-themed hand cut collage, playing with power dynamics and perceptions of women's sexuality. Take this gorgeous giant mummified woman home with you. Spray paint, acrylic paint, glue, vinyl and more come together to create a piece of the street for your wall.
12x24”
By Doverin
A dynamic, colorful and kinky wheatpaste of The Supergirl from Krypton, a collage that plays with the image of a woman on her knees, looking up, but the size of an entire quarry and seemingly landed from space. Is her expression welcoming or warning? That’s for you to decide every night before bed as she hangs on your wall. Spray paint, film, and stamp and ink finish off this superb modern art piece.
22 x 30”
The artist in her spare time
By Doverin
Stunning BDSM-themed hand cut collage of a dominatrix holding her whip above her head and dozens of naked people laying at her feet in the middle of “the new” Times Square. Playing with power dynamics and perceptions of women's sexuality, this forces you to regard a woman weaponizing her sexuality. Spray paint, acrylic paint, glue, vinyl and more come together to create a piece of the street for your wall.
18x24”