2nd Prize 33PA Drawing Award

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

Win Wallace

Title:

“Upon Encountering Cerberus” 

Medium & Dimensions:

Charcoal, conte’ and pencil, 37 x 64″

About the Artist

Win Wallace was born in South Carolina and is currently based in Lockhart, Texas. His recent practice focuses on pencil, conte’ and charcoal portraits, as well as ink drawings. Since high school, Wallace has played in bands and made scores of flyers for underground punk and noise rock shows. Over the years, he created posters for bands like the Melvins, Neurosis, Sleep, Helios Creed, The Jesus Lizard, DMBQ, Animal Collective, Scratch Acid, The Dead Kennedys and many others. He moved to Austin in the mid 1990’s to study drawing at the University of Texas. His drawings on paper are made with simple materials populated by fictitious individuals. Characters that are as rooted in art history, as they are nestled among the flora and fauna of nature. The work explores the interconnectedness of all things, even the irreconcilable forces of hope and despair in a fragile world. A perfect harmony may not exist, but perhaps an uneasy balance can be possible.

“Upon Encountering Cerberus”: A drawing that is part of my series “Through Dogs’ Eyes”. These works anthropomorphize the fears, failure and hubris in our surrender to environmental collapse and technological fascism.