Cassandra Carrillo
Cassandra Carrillo is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist working as a graphic designer, painter, muralist, and sculptor. By fusing her knowledge of character art with her interest in otherworldly entities, she has created a satirical portraiture style that exhibits spiritual duality. She continues to feature artwork in galleries across the U.S. and collaborate with local artists in new mediums along the way.
I hope viewers get inspired by how limitless imagination can be. I paint surrealism because original creatures and never-before-seen artworks are more than just visuals - they represent moments of discovery, newness, growth, and the ongoing expansion of knowledge.
Expressions by Cassandra
This quick, raw spray-painted character embodies my love for surreal playfulness in public spaces. It’s mischievous, exaggerated, and rooted in cartoonish energy, but still carries an edge of something otherworldly. Murals like this allow me to bring that sense of discovery out of the gallery and into the streets.
This figure is a merging of contradictions: monstrous yet serene, grotesque yet divine. Its blue-scaled body and horned head are met with meditative hands and a glowing halo, creating a being that feels at once threatening and peaceful. For me, it’s about balance — the truth that light cannot exist without shadow.
This piece takes the human figure and distorts it into something unfamiliar — a portrait without a face, replaced by an unsettling rib-like cavity. It’s about what lies beneath the surface, the parts of ourselves we try to hide, and the beauty in confronting the discomfort of what makes us human.
The rat, often seen as something lowly or despised, is transformed here into a creature of power and reverence. With glowing fur and a crown-like headdress, it embodies duality — both grotesque and majestic, both earthly and spiritual. It asks us to see value where we might not expect it.
