Large Mike Falcon Torn Paper Collage Painting Assemblage Pop Art Decollage

Dimensions: H: 47.0, W: 47.0, D: 2 IN

Mike Falcon Today Means I Love You 2017 Mixed media on canvas 47 × 47 in

Hand signed and titled verso Bears a label from Detour Gallery verso

Mike Falcon collaged paper, photos and text in red, yellow, blue, and black. The images delineate a gritty and ironic view of American life. Ferrari and Lamborghini It's so Miami, vintage comic strips, Japanese Manga etc.

Mike Falcon is a self-taught Outsider artist whose work evolved from the graffiti culture of Venice Beach, California and New York City. Incorporating the influence of early street art artists like Jean Michel Basquiat, the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella as well as Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.

His signature style consists of layering printed material made almost abstract by applying multiple layers of collaged strips, embedded with codified messages through word logos, shadow silhouettes, reconstructed cultural icons, and photography. Superheroes, pop figures, and cultural obsessions abound in Falcon’s work, juxtaposed with his ubiquitous word symbols. His obsession with the graphical is fed by his experience at the gritty periphery of the New York cityscape, where paper-plastered advertising walls reveal their histories layer by layer and now three dimensional. His deeply organized chaos combines this gritty aspect of the photo graphic cityscape with an ironic view of the contemporary American cultural scene. Work based on Collage, Decoupage, Decollage, Fumage

that were inspired by the Nouveau Réalisme movement. This is a technique similar In style to Italian artists Mimmo Rotella and Roberto Alborghetti, French artists Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé, Turkish artist Burhan Dogancay as well as American artists Mark Bradford and Peter tunney.