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Dalí Ovo. Mixed media on canvas 36″ x 72″  $ 12,500

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí was a Spaniard artist, filmmaker, author, and critic who became synonymous with Surrealism. Known for his meticulous technique and bizarre imagery, Dalí’s work explored the subconscious, dreams, sexuality, religion, and science. His paintings, like The Persistence of Memory, blurred the lines between reality and illusion. He also created found-object sculptures like Lobster Telephone (1938). Sexuality permeated Dali’s art, often manifesting in the form of erotic symbolism and Freudian themes. His infamous painting “The Great Masturbator” (1929) is a prime example, depicting a grotesque figure with a distorted face and phallic protrusion. Dali’s exploration of sexuality was not merely aesthetic but deeply personal, reflecting his conflicted obsession with masturbation from a young age.

Frida de Pelos. Mixed media on canvas 36″ x 72″   Sold!

Georgia O’keeffe 1887-1986 Mixed media on canvas 24″x30″ $4,800

Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Renowned for her distinctive enlarged flower paintings. Though she rejected efforts to prescribe specific meanings to her art, O’Keeffe’s flower pieces frequently evoke themes of femininity, sexuality, and organic abstraction. O’Keeffe painted a variety of subjects throughout her career, from abstract drawings and NYC skyscrapers to flowers and desert landscapes. Despite the changing subjects, her detailed attention, focus on bold shapes, and use of vibrant colors remained constant in her art.

Keith Haring 1958-1990 after @ Annie Leibovitz photograph. Mixed media on canvas 48″ x 48″ Sold!

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has “become a widely recognized visual language”. In 1988, Haring was diagnosed with AIDS. He began to work harder than ever and in 1989, established the Keith Haring Foundation to raise money for AIDS organizations and children’s programs. He also demonstrated publicly against the stigma and prejudice associated with the disease, which he had personally experienced.

Yayoi in Wonderland. Mixed media on canvas 36″x72″ $12,500

Yayoi Kusama’s work is characterized by repeating patterns and dense polka dots that create a sense of infinity. Kusama’s prolific career spans over 65 years and includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, fashion, poetry, and fiction. Her work is sometimes described as Pop art, abstraction, and feminist art. Back in the 60s, the Japanese artist was at the centre of a new avant-garde emerging in New York, where she became known for staging theatrical, and often impromptu, ‘body festivals’, where Kusama and her bande à part of free-spirited hippy friends would assemble in various locations across the city and, essentially, cover themselves in Kusama’s now-trademark polka dots, before spiralling into orgiastic tangles of paint and limbs. Audience participation was optional.

Debora Arango 1907-2005 Mixed media on canvas 24″x30″ $4,800

Débora Arango Pérez was a Colombian artist, born in Medellín, Colombia. Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20^th century artists. With a single-mindedness that saw her reject all expectations for a well-educated middle-class Catholic, she pursued a career, not only as a female artist, but one who produced works that presented a blunt challenged to Colombian culture and its artistic traditions. Struggling against censor and defamation, her work ignited sharp criticism from conservative and religious bodies. Her art examined issues related to sexuality, class, political corruption, religious hypocrisy, and the struggles facing vulnerable Colombian women. Her expressionistic treatment of these topics was unflinching and unapologetic.

The American dream. Mixed media on wood 32″ x 48″  Sold

One of the most personal paintings that I have done. It reflects the early years of my arrival in the United States. A dollar bill, the Manhattan sky line, the fireworks, Miss lady liberty, a duffel bag, Marilyn Monroe are some of the symbols mixed with the flag, and the dripping paint that represents the sweet and tears in pursue of my dream. The ideals who brought me here in search of freedom, the opportunity for prosperity and success; all through hard work, initiative, and resilience.