Kenny Scharf
Photography © Elisabet Davidsdottir. The photos depict Scharf at work in his signature style and do not represent the piece to be auctioned.
Kenny Scharf
Untitled, 2024
Spray paint on canvas
84 in. x 240 in. / 213.3 cm. x 609.6 cm.
Scharf will take part in a special six-day amfAR Gala Cannes artist residency, creating a unique quadriptych on the event grounds to be auctioned off during the gala.
Kenny Scharf (born in Los Angeles, 1958) attended Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts and came of age in the 1980s New York downtown art scene alongside his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
A painter and performer inhabiting the visual worlds of both street art and popular culture, Scharf’s paintings gained him notoriety and established a vernacular language all his own. Often working with improvisation, he creates playful, gestural pieces that blend stylized motifs with references to the surreal, science fiction, and icons of popular culture. Many of his larger works still adorn New York streets to this day.
Courtesy of the artist (@kennyscharf), Almine Rech, and The Journal Gallery
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