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'Driving Home Alone' (2007)

24" x 24"

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'Driving Home Alone' (2007)

Giclee print, edition of 200
Signed by the Artist

six foot person & work to scale

David Choe

Rarely do we see a street artist with the skills and complexity of David Choe. Rapidly establishing himself as one of the greats of the genre, Choe is compellingly repulsive. His complex and pulchritudinous pictures, seductive, appealing and ambitious yet equally mischievous, brutal and insular demonstrate what an angry, intelligent talent can truly achieve. Choe sculpts and paints in oils, acrylics, crayon and mixed media. Influences flow through comic book culture to gothic art, impressionism and the surreal.

The content of Choe’s work is equally complex and in contrast to the slick, succinct, populist messages of some of his contemporaries. The fictional military heroes of GI Joe wield boom boxes above Arabic slogans; hip young metropolitan ladies whisper their cruel conspiracies; seedy delights beckon from behind pretty vistas; grown men scream for ice cream; absurdist animals rope humans into their incomprehensible schemes.

The artist’s first solo show was held at Double Rainbow, a small ice cream shop on Melrose Avenue of Los Angeles’s Westside. His show was only supposed to run for a month, but it stayed up for two years, after pieces starting selling faster than the ice cream. Since then he has shown at various cities around the world, including San Jose, New York City and London. His works have previously been in publications such as Hustler, Raygun, Vice and Juxtapoz Magazine.

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