Triple Elvis, 2022
$400.00Brock's ‘Triple Elvis’ explores one of Andy Warhol’s most iconic artworks, ‘Double Elvis,’ which featured the twin likeness of Elvis Presley. Warhol’s source material was a publicity photo for the movie, Flaming Star (1960), and painted on a silver background to convey a sense of glamour. Brock played on that idea by tripling the figure and foregrounding his own surface quality and gloss. For this edition, he worked off his master file to produce 50 variations of the image, changing the color scheme for each, thereby making 50 unique art works.
Medium:
Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching 350 gsm paper
Dimensions:
28h x 24.5w in
(71.12h x 62.23w cm)
Edition of 50 + 6 AP
Signed by the artist
Published by Simco Editions
Artwork sold unframed
Alic Brock (b. Dayton, OH) is a self-taught artist based in Atlanta. Working with ultra-precision in his airbrush technique, Brock “chops and screws” his subject matter, taking iconic images that he finds online and manipulating them first with computer software and then in real-life, skewing his stencils to create an enchanting uneasiness in his paintings. Alic favors pop-culture icons like basketball players and musicians, but he doesn’t shy away from art-historic subjects, like a Man Ray photograph, or more obscure athletes, like runners and wrestlers, whose energetic movement Brock exalts and amplifies. Working with a hyper-saturated color palette, Brock’s paintings, with their repetition and inversion, serve as a meditation on digital communication and visual transmission.
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