Enrique Gomez de Molina Art Miami, FL

Thanks to a taxidermist father who worked for the Miami Museum Of Science, and encouraged his kids to be creative with random animal parts, Enrique creates disturbing, compelling, way cool realanimal mashups that evoke either an Avatarlike alternative world, or one where evolution s gone haywire due to human follies and lord knows, that musical will drive anyone crazy. Some of his larger recent work includes Acrobat (a swooping river otter, bird with a snakekilling stork bill, fighting cock wings, and a pheasant tail), Mystic (a sagelooking creature with a beaver body, huge swan feet, a hornbill head, and a Yodastyle walking stick), and Pandora, an aggressive doubleheaded swan with a coyote body, deer hooves, a warthog tail, and devilish horns from an antelope called a dikdik, which explains the whole twoheads thing. There re also some smaller works, like Serpent (a coiled cobra body with a furious parakeet for a head), Early Bird (a Jurassiclooking badboy with a hornbill beak, spiky igu