X8

X8 or X-8 may refer to:

X-8 (artist)

X-8 (born 1960 in Whittier, California) is an American painter of visionary and outsider art. Also a publisher, co-founder of punk fanzine Flipside.

Early paintings

X-8 began creating mud paintings living in Downtown Los Angeles in 1982.

Tar and bullet paintings, hair paintings, and various mudworks were exhibited at the Satellite Gallery in Downtown LA in 1986. He also did portraits of serial killer Richard Ramirez.

In July 1991, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial about the 'death' of the Downtown Los Angeles loft/art scene and commented on his burgeoning series of misanthropic works.

Exorcistic paintings

In 1992, he began creating large exorcistic and cathartic figuratives as a method of purification.

In October 1999, CNN featured his work as a reference for a news story about the demonic possession of a church in rural France.

Placing works in film and TV, the painting "Headless Angel" was part of the main set design in the 2000-2001 Fox horror/paranormal television series Freakylinks.