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Also exhibited as part of The Admiration Series

Yes, this is a breakup painting. When I started working on it back in January of last year for a body of still life work, I wanted to create something with a reactionary feel to it. Shepard Fairey’s work was fresh in my mind after seeing his recent show at the Institute of Contemporary art in Boston. I had been thinking about him for quite sometime and really enjoyed his work. So after the show I knew where I’d be going with this still life.

Note the limited color palette (with a concentration on the fiery red), the intense back lighting and the slightly misconstrued shadow pattern on the wall. I wanted to combine my straightforward approach to trompe l’oeil painting to his stylistic approach to visually empowering political artwork. Fairey borrows and appropriates a large majority of the imagery he uses in his paintings such as Soviet era propaganda posters. Reactionary tendencies run through all of these aesthetically intertwined artworks.