Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen the paintings interpret iconic LA

the paintings interpret iconic LA locations through Israel’s take on noir aesthetics

Presenting eighteen paintings from a span of twenty-five years

Venyx takes a fresh

Man Ray “rectified” the form of the first-century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade

and ceramic works by the artists

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen the paintings interpret iconic LAIn Self Portrait (Green Beard) (2017), a print produced by Mixografia, Alex Israel depicts his own sunglasses clad face in profile, replacing his features with smoothly gradated color fields. Editioned in six different color combinations, Self Portrait features a white outline of the artists head in raised relief with a hollow, contoured interior. Making use of a 1980s style palette that juxtaposes neon and pastel hues, Israel evokes the distinctive