SEXY (Sieff), 2019 AS (Condo), 2021 HELL (Hirst), 2021 (One Word Poem Commission)

After purchasing Sexy (Sieff), 2019, a collector commissioned me to make a tryptch out of the piece, adding the words “as” and “hell”.

I created a couple different palette ideas, but we went with print colors: Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

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Since the magenta bougainvillea image is so dramatic, I chose to use a George Condo piece that was a little quieter for the background of the ‘a’ and ‘s’.

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Although the yellow is bold, it doesn’t have as much detail as the first two images of the tryptch. I decided to get a little busier with the background image and selected a Damien Hirst butterfly piece.

INNER BEAUTY / OUTER GLOW, 2020

DIPTYCH COMMISSION

INNER BEAUTY, 2020
Archival inkjet print, ink, gouache, and vellum on watercolor paper
24 x 20 inches

OUTER GLOW, 2020
Acrylic, archival inkjet print, ink, and vellum on watercolor paper
24 x 20 inches

This large diptych commission was inspired by the sunset gradients and floral elements of my One Word Poems series.

This was my first time using gold as a background, and I absolutely love how it turned out! As you can see from the images, depending on how the light is captured, the piece changes as you move around it.

The letters for these pieces were the largest I’ve cutout yet, and it was really fun to play with the sizes of the floral elements to balance that space. I kept many of the floral drawings as whole pieces instead of how I usually break them down into fragments.

PROCESS

The Crown Is Heavy, 2020

The Crown Is Heavy, 2020
Archival pigment print, auction catalog, ink and vellum
13 x 20 inches (image size), 17 x 22 inches (paper size)

Artwork commission combining multiple Basquiat-inspired patterns and symbols.

The detail images show the combination of crown, skull, and instrument motifs with drawn floral elements. Note the depth from the shadow cast by the cut letters.