FOREVER AFTER?
group show
Curated by Haleh Mashian
"Liquid Diet" 2025
oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas with carved wood elements and frame
52 x 40 inches
How-Many-Licks Betty, 2025
How-Many-Licks Betty, 2025
How-Many-Licks Betty (side)
How-Many-Licks Betty (side)
Double Walker Elvis, 2025
Double Walker Elvis, 2025
Happiest Madonna-ronna with Mouselet, 2024
Happiest Madonna-ronna with Mouselet, 2024
Skeleton Key, 2025
Skeleton Key, 2025
Imagery for "Liquid Diet" was taken directly from the classic 1983 movie poster design for the gorgeous immortal vampire film, The Hunger (directed by Tony Scott), featuring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. The frame adds a more sinister Poean motif to the story of lust for love and life suggesting that aging ultimately can't be beat.

"How-Many-Licks Betty" 2025
oil, acrylic, spray paint on wood and canvas with Plexiglas
65 x 36 x 8 inches

An elderly Betty Boop sits alone in the desert, licking her cactus in remembrance of her youth – a time when clever Mr. Owl, voiced by Paul Winchell, in the iconic commercial of 1984, explored "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?" Behind the image of Betty is a reference to Care Bear who has melted away, another reference to 80s pop culture. Betty Boop herself first appeared upon the scene in 1930, with a cameo appearance in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, stating "But I still got it, Eddie!"

"Double Walker Elvis" diptych, 2025
acrylic, spray paint, glassine, tennis balls on canvas
96 x 72 inches

Instead of representing Warhol's 60s screen prints of Elvis in the same material, I used house paint masked with modern day spray paint while leaving white-washed acrylic drips to hint at America's and technology's plasticity/plastic culture. Incorporating the collaged imagery of walkers, Elvis and Warhol – although tired, dead and overdone – remain as staples today, retaining still-standing celebrity status.

"Happiest Madonna-ronna with Mouselet" 2024
mixed-media collage with waffle iron on composite board with carved wood frame
96 x 42 x 5 inches

Mickey, as a newborn, nuzzles to the many overflowing breasts of Madonna, securing his place in the world as savior to youthful imagination. Collaged words can be read as "Beware of the children" or " Be the children" - a nod to John Carpenter - implying that creating the happiest place on earth may require determination, although castle building has begun.

"Skeleton Key" 2025
oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas with carved wood elements and frame
56 x 38 x 6 inches

“When you hear sweet syncopation and the music softly moans/‘t ain’t no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones/When it gets too hot for comfort, and you can’t get an ice-cream cone/t’ain’t no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones/Just like those bamboo babies, down in the South Sea tropic zone/ t’aint no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones." 

"0077" 2025
acrylic, spray paint, plaster on wood
93 x 42 x 42 inches

Perhaps the next installment of James Bond will feature our British agent hero as an old man, entitled: Age of Chaos or Still Up to the Challenge maybe even Viagra Vs. MAGA. This anamorphic sculpture clearly displays continuation of adventure when beholden from the most optimal point of view. (What will Q think up next!)
0077 install side
0077 install side
0077 install other side
0077 install other side
0077 in studio, front
0077 in studio, front
0077 install, back
0077 install, back