Charlie Alston (b. 1997, San Francisco, USA) currently lives and works in Paris, France. Using pop-cultural elements from comics, branding and advertising, Alston examines the various influences he is confronted with in his life. A global citizen, exposed to many social and cultural narratives, the artist digests conceptually and formally the popular culture at large. Taking inspiration from among other things post-war magazines about and for African American people such as Jet he crates collage-like paintings in which figuration and abstraction melt into each other. His interest lies in the twilight zone, the area where the ambiguity reign and meanings get shape.