Straight Up
Works in Jan’s Heroes series celebrate virtues of icons from popular culture.
Straight Up is an appropriation of a production still from the 1956 Warner Brothers film “Giant” starring James Dean, surrounded by bands of horizontal lines, above and below, meditating on the experience of being tough and sensitive, as Dean’s flawed ‘Jett Rink’ character in the film.
Works in Jan’s Heroes series celebrate virtues of icons from popular culture.
Straight Up is an appropriation of a production still from the 1956 Warner Brothers film “Giant” starring James Dean, surrounded by bands of horizontal lines, above and below, meditating on the experience of being tough and sensitive, as Dean’s flawed ‘Jett Rink’ character in the film.
Works in Jan’s Heroes series celebrate virtues of icons from popular culture.
Straight Up is an appropriation of a production still from the 1956 Warner Brothers film “Giant” starring James Dean, surrounded by bands of horizontal lines, above and below, meditating on the experience of being tough and sensitive, as Dean’s flawed ‘Jett Rink’ character in the film.
dye-infused microsuede
168cm x 168cm x 5cm
executed in 2017
edition 2 of 3 🔴