Hello Tiger

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On view at KP Projects Gallery from August 2nd - August 30th as part of the group show Spheres of Influence. Hello Tiger is an open letter to the blend of influences in my art, with co-authoring by my 6 year old self. The result, a remix born from Ellsworth Kelly’s minimalist rigor as reimagined through the most optimistic of mass culture. Drawing from Kelly’s Tiger painting, I lifted only the color fields and rebuilt the composition through the lens of my own visual vocabulary—one shaped by Saturday mornings, cereal boxes, and the energy of sport. Tony the Tiger and a spinning basketball cut through Kelly’s modernist grid, collapsing the boundary between canonical abstraction and the commercial imagery that I play with most frequently in my practice.

This piece extends the themes I explored in my recent exhibition Monuments of Play at the SAM Gallery at the Seattle Art Museum where optimism, cultural iconography, and the monumentalization of toys were central. It is also a further riff on the layered triptychs of my Box Top Series, where I reframe cereal packaging as cultural wayfinders. I see these influences as an ongoing conversation—a porous, evolving field where memory, mass media, and fine art collide. I feel that Hello Tiger sits firmly in that exchange, remixing the ephemera that we consume and serving back how it has shaped us.

Materials: Oil & acrylic on wood panel with cutout attachment.
Size: 38"w x 46"h x 2.375"d 
Hanging Mechanism: wired & d-ring
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