Dayi Novas

OUCH! Issue No.1: LOVE

Digital and print magazine

"My work is about adding clean, expansive space into your mind; feeling comfort despite discomfort; feeling safe and towering. A recent series of paintings depict stretching landscapes that are meant to make you feel relieved, quiet, a bit grand. Within these spaces, I sometimes choose to embed secret elements that represent more frightening parts of my past.

After graduating in 2020, I started OUCH! Magazine: A Happy Magazine for Everyone, a monthly publication that provides an opportunity for myself and other artists to create and showcase work without the pressure of critique or client, no explanations or apologies needed. Colorful and energetic, it is a children’s magazine for adults who didn’t have a childhood. "

– Dayi Novas

About the artist

Dayi Novas

My name is Dayi (dah-YEE, she/her) and I grew up in the American South. I graduated in 2020 from The Cooper Union with a degree in design & painting; and from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in 2015 as valedictorian. My dog’s name is Timber.

I’ve designed typefaces, made little animations, worked on AOC’s campaign at this one design firm, hand-bound books. I draw and paint, and created Studio OUCH! LLC in 2021.