Los Angeles-based artist Matt Gondek is known for painting what he calls “deconstructive pop art”. Particularly influenced by Pop Art giants such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and contemporary artists like Jeff Koons and KAWS, Gondek uses familiar popular icons from comic books and cartoons, who are often idolised like modern-day gods, and then deconstructs them, in a punk-spirit act of rebellion and anti-conformity.