Robbie Conal: ‘Cabinet of Horrors’ Exhibition

74-year-old illustrator and guerilla street artist Robbie Conal spent more than three decades satirizing conservative lawmakers before he moved from Los Angeles to Los Osos, an idyllic beach community on California’s Central Coast, in 2014. Conal would’ve been perfectly happy if he never drew another politician again. And then Donald Trump became president.

“It has compelled me to work do more work than I’ve ever done in my life, and it just pours out of me,” Conal tells Rolling Stone. “It’s cathartic in a way.”

Simultaneously revolted and reinvigorated by the Trump administration, Conal has spent the last two years furiously making unflattering, demented-looking portraits of the president — or as Conal likes to call him, “the mad king” — along with more than a dozen members of his inner circle.

Titled Cabinet of Horrors, an exhibition of the paintings opens Saturday and runs through December 8th at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles.

Posters of the paintings have also appeared on the streets of cities including New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., thanks to Conal and his team of guerilla collaborators across the country.