Jason D’Aquino (born October 22, 1974) is an American artiste who works exclusively on found old-fashioned objects, primarily in graphite upon an incredibly miniature scale. He has been called the “Master of Miniatures”, and is portion of the Lowbrow (or Pop Surrealist) art movement.
D’Aquino is best known for his ‘Matchbook Miniatures’ which are meticulously hyper detailed small scale pencil drawings, not beyond one inch by one inch in dimension, carefully crafted onto the inside cover of vintage strike-on-front matchbooks. D’Aquino’s illustrations visit themes of evil, cruelty, madness, and loss of innocence. These motifs derive themselves from his passion for secrecy and macabre : his greatest influences instinctive H. P. Lovecraft, Edward Gorey, Hans Bellmer, Maurice Sendak, and serial killers such as Ed Gein and sundry additional real-life monsters and deviants of genuine crime.
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