Marilyn Monroe — Neon Red (Diamond Dust)
2019
Condition reports and provenance available upon request
About This Work
David Studwell's Marilyn Monroe — Neon Red (Diamond Dust) from the celebrated Marilyn Monroe Diamond Dust series, hand-pulled at his Sussex studio in a incandescent neon red palette and finished with hand-embellished diamond dust so the image reads with a crystalline shimmer under gallery lights. Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. Edition of 30.
About the Artist
David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and printmaker who studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over twenty years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints.
His works explore the darker side of fame, nostalgia and Americana — police mug-shots of well-known stars show them at their most vulnerable, or at their most defiant. Private moments of icons at screen-tests or during reflection become graphically public, produced in bold and vivid colours. S…
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