Ravi Zupa - 2Pac Contemplating a Geode - Hand-Finished
TITLE: 2Pac Contemplating a Geode
SIZE: 6 x 8 Inches
MEDIA: "To create this piece, I carved 2Pac's Face out of a piece of traffic cone and then block printed it onto paper. I then screen printed the teal and red elements of the design onto the paper and mounted the final print to a piece of wood."
EDITION: 100 HFMs (Hand-Finished Multiples)Not framed.
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Self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist Ravi Zupa has held jobs as an animator and elementary school art teacher; his work, which often includes recycled media like maps and letters, is precisely rendered and wildly inventive. Taking cues from German Renaissance portraiture and Japanese woodblock prints, Zupa’s figures can be awkwardly posed and depicted from a slightly off-kilter perspectives. In one painting, a sort of update on the “artist in his studio” trope, a figure sits at a desk where a computer monitor takes the place of an easel—hanging dogs, peasants, and a sprouting human heart emerge from the workspace. Zupa has exhibited extensively in his hometown of Denver, as well as cities across the globe—from London to Copenhagen to Mexico City.
Ravi Zupa considers books the best way to experience art. He has spent decades studying books about the art, mythology, religion, and history of cultures from across geography and time. Entirely self-taught, Zupa looks to works by German Renaissance printmakers, Flemish primitives, abstract expressionists, Japanese woodblock artists, and Mughal painters for inspiration. He also frequently incorporates religious iconography from Europe, Asia, and Pre-Columbian Latin America with revolutionary propaganda from around the world. With a distaste for ironic art or the thoughtless appropriation of culture, he integrates seemingly unrelated images in search of something universal. Zupa does not create any of his art digitally; everything comes from his own hand.
Ravi Zupa is an up and coming street wise artist. Shepard Fairey's Obey Clothing used some of his work in a recent new line of tee shirts.
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