Career Profile: Nathan Menglef, artist

Nathan Menglef is a self-taught painter, zinester, illustrator, gutter punk and linux geek, originally from Florida but now living, working and squatting in Amsterdam. He designed album covers for punk and avant garde record labels and made occasional contributions to various zines and magazines of all budgets and aesthetics before his work was spotted in a squat gallery in Amsterdam by a Dutch collector of the art-elite establishment who went on to sponsor several shows. Menglef’s work is visceral, beautiful, cynical, violent, subversive and by turns terrifying, combining the aesthetics of cute grinning 80s symbols of youth and pop-culture with underground comic art, and raging and blistering against the dumb cult of consumption with the cold eye of the elective outsider.