David MR STARCITY White NIKE Air Jordan Acrylic Splash Painting on Canvas
Dave "Mr StarCity" White(Brooklyn, 1979), acrylic painting on canvas of a Nike Air Jordan on pink backdrop with thick splashes of paint.
Unframed and unsigned, but was painted by Mr. White at the opening of Packer Shoes in Teaneck, NJ on March 24, 2004. Attached is a video and this painting shows up at the 20 second mark. Our client was at the opening and purchased this painting directly from the artist. Here is the video: https://vimeo.com/channels/davewhitestudio/1458767
In excellent condition.
Measures 19 3/4" x 15 1/2".
As found on WoawGallery: David "MrStarCity" White (b. 1979, Brooklyn, New York City) lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. White has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions with renown international galleries and institutions in New York City, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, London and Stockholm. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Instyle, New American Paintings and Hyperallergic. Notable forthcoming projects include the U.S. premiere of BLACK VOICES in partnership with FRIEZE/FRIEZE Magazine/WME, a solo exhibition with iv gallery (Los Angeles, CA) in 2020 and a solo exhibition with CFHill (Stockholm, SE) in 2021.
He has become increasingly recognized for his experimental storytelling through means of figurative painting and poetry. MrStarCity creates bodies of work that span a diverse range of media from painting to sculpture, poetry to music, performance to the moving image. In recent years, MrStarCity has become increasingly recognized for his playful abstract portraits of both real and imagined subjects, embodying an otherworldly synthesis of the beauty, passion and conflict that define our world.
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