Commissions
Why buy a portrait for $1,000* from some independent schlub? Because you are not a soulless algorithm (yet)
You could blow more money for less on a bunch of things:
A trip to Dubai for the one perfect instagram shot that gets you 12 more likes.
A subscription to the latest non alcoholic health drink trend you forget to cancel after you realize you had more fun being a drunkard.
A soul-draining “fine art” print of Popeye, Marylin Monroe, and the Wu-Tang symbol.
Or you could commission a portrait. Of you. Of your kid. Of a pot of flowers. Of a landscape.
Want a piece of your favorite lamp? Fuck it, who am I to judge?
I’m classically trained. Which means I know what I’m doing, and I probably have opinions about Caravaggio. But I’m not here to lecture you about chiaroscuro.
I’ve spent two decades years developing a style that incorporates my academic training with my street art days. You want to save the planet!? Well, I use pervasive advertisements taken from the streets of New York as my base for the recycled paper I use to create each new piece.
Galleries are middlemen with white walls and existential dread. You will deal with me directly.
Yes it’s not cheap. You’re commissioning a one of a kind piece of art, not ordering a latte.
Why art galleries suck (and you know they do)
Let’s face it. I’m jaded. I tick all of the wrong boxes. And if the right gallery came along I’d kick my soap box right into my high-horse.
BUT! We must call a spade a spade.
Galleries are white cubes full of cold stares, tepid wine, and overpriced silence.
The art? Half of it is a rich kid’s therapy session stapled to a wall.
The other half? Untouchable. Unless your name’s on a board at MoMA or you summer in Sardinia.
Galleries don’t sell art. They sell access. They gatekeep. They ego-fluff. They turn raw creative work into speculative real estate for bored collectors and finance bros.
They speak… In bullshit… Riddles:
“This piece explores absence”
Yeah. So does my fucking bank account.
Meanwhile, the actual artists, the ones with calluses and chaos and talent? They get 50%, if they’re lucky, and maybe a sad write up in a zine no one reads.
*My art ranges in price depending on size and subject. But you’re looking closer to $1000 than you are $100. All reference photos for all works are taken by me in the studio or on location. I do not make art from crap polaroids or facebook photos.
Click here for link to style of art for commissions