Alex Dorney is a mixed media artist based in the Shenandoah Valley. His passion for vintage print started from a young age, brought on by a love for flea markets and yard sales. An interest in collage came naturally in high school and he has pursued it ever since. Specifically focusing on product advertisements, he harvests images from the pages of mass market magazines for use in surreal mechanical constructions. He draws influences from the absurd collages of early Dada artists and the stop motion animations of Terry Gilliam. Alex uses a collection of thousands of vintage images to build complex impossible machinery and vehicles to populate his own surreal universe.