Johnny Draco

Artist Johnny Draco merges abstraction, Afrofuturism, and cultural symbolism to create deeply layered visual narratives rooted in his memories and identity. His compositions feature gorgeously stylized, often masked or fragmented figures that emerge from delightfully bold color fields and textured surfaces. These characters function as vessels—carrying ancestry, emotion, and spiritual resonance rather than literal storylines.

Through geometry, repetition, negative space, and subtle gradients, Draco builds atmospheres that shift between the physical and the metaphysical. Earth tones meet vibrant hues, reflecting a dialogue between history and possibility. Influenced by African diasporic visual traditions, his work incorporates sacred patterns and symbolic forms as a living language of inheritance.

Draco lives and works in Denver, Colorado.