Nick Smith
Canson Rag Photographque 310 gsm Paper
24 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
This edition presents vivid hibiscus blooms on a crisp white background adorned with a high-gloss screen overlay. The image is playfully pixelated in Nick Smith's iconic abstraction style that, combined with the colour-chip text, allows the viewer to digest the full meaning of the work, anchoring it in it's context.
For these editions each of the individual custom-made colour-chips references a word, which when read in its entirety, mirrors Warhol's transcripts discussing the subjects of fame & beauty as found in ‘The Philosophy of Andy Warhol’.
Fame and Beauty are recurring themes in both Warhol’s and Smith's works, aligning the concepts with the artworks, which are often satirical of contemporary culture.