Layer Cake

Working under the name Layer Cake, New York-born Sean Sullivan moves between music production, apparel design and the stencil art he is best known for. His clothing line carries a love of fine art and graffiti, and that same energy shows up in his canvas work. Plenty of his mixed-media pieces spotlight familiar pop-culture characters lifted from TV or old magazines — Speed Racer, Pink Panther and Popeye among them. Layered over vintage comic book pages, these textured compositions become striking collages that he completes with his distinctive stencil technique.