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Most work here is available for purchase as either original paintings or as limited edition resin coated prints on panel. For information on purchasing or inquiries of any kind, feel free to email Troy at troy@troygua.com
‘Pop Hybrids’ are about, among other things, reduction: the reduction of personality into logo, the reduction of individuality into the collective, the reduction of photography into design. They are a subtraction of images: the recycling, re-using and reducing of two or more images into one iconographic collection of shapes.
This mesmeric series of work deals with popular iconography, ironic duality and satirical juxtapositions. By portraying famous and infamous cultural icons inter-layered with one another, these highly lustrous, visually arresting pieces challenge the viewer to decipher the image while making the sardonic, metaphorical and sometimes philosophical connections within.
The series began as meticulously hand-painted acrylic on canvas pieces, which were then sealed in a mirror-finish resin coating. When people began falling for specific paintings that had already found homes, I decided that the logical next step in allowing me to make the work more widely available would be to make the work as "original limited editions", each design in a numbered edition of 5 or 10, depending on the size. I now create the imagery digitally, print the image on metallic photo paper, mount the print to panel, and finish the pieces with my hand by applying the final touch - a smooth as glass resin coating.
"The celebrity portraits are as slick and polished as custom made cars and as clever as the most inspired work of a Madison Avenue ad writer."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
In process shot of 'You Say You Want A Revolution' (Vladimir Lenin + John Lennon)
this shows the high gloss, mirror finish of the resin coating applied to all Pop Hybrid works
You Say You Want A Revolution (Vladimir Lenin + John Lennon)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36, 24x24 and 12x12
The Brides (Uma Thurman as The Bride + Elsa Lanchester as The Bride of Frankenstein)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36, 24x24 and 12x12
The Futurists (Aldous Huxley + George Orwell)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36, 24x24 and 12x12
The Brains and The Beauty (Albert Einstein + Marilyn Monroe)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Elton John Wayne
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Davids (Michelangelo's David + David Bowie)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Baltimoreans, or A Descent Into Desperate Living, or The Purloined Pecker, or The Fall of The House of Mondo Trasho (Edgar Allan Poe + John Waters)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Amazing Graces (Grace Jones + Grace Kelly)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Mickey Mao (Mickey Mouse + Chaiman Mao Zedong)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2009, 36 x 36" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Salvador Dali Lama (Salvador Dali + The Dalai Lama)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
La Dada Gaga (Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. + Lady Gaga)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Michaels (Michael Jackson at 10, 30, and 50 years of age)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Boy King of Pop (Michael Jackson + the mask of King Tutankhamun)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Boy King of Pop 2.0 (Michael Jackson + young King Tutankhamun)
Acrylic and resin on MDF panel, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Mona Lisa Marie (Davinci's Mona Lisa + Lisa Marie Presley)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 36 x 36"
The Martin Luther King of Rock n' Roll (Dr. Martin Luther King + Elvis Presley)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2009, 36 x 36" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The King of Kings of Rock and Roll (Jesus + Elvis Presley)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Jacks, or On the Road to Camelot (Jack Kerouac + John F. Kennedy)
Resin-coated acrylic on canvas, 2010, 36 x 36 and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The X and the O (Malcolm X + Barack Obama)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Ronald McReagan (Ronald Reagan + Ronald McDonald)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 36 x 36"
The Man Ray Charles, or Sound and Vision (Man Ray + Ray Charles)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Enlightened (Gandhi + Yoda)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Davids 2.0 (Michelangelo's David + David Bowie)
Acrylic and resin on MDF panel, 2009, 36 x 36" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Leonards, or Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen + Leonard Nimoy)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Pleasure Is All Mine
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2009, 48 x 48" and resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Rons (Ron Howard + Ron Jeremy)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Divine (Divine + Jesus Christ)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Trippers (Aldous Huxley + John Ritter)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Importance of Being Ernest, or Men Without Women (Ernest Hemingway + Oscar Wilde)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Lizard King of Kings (Jim Morrison + Jesus Christ)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Artists Formerly and Currently Known As Prince
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Queens of England (Queen Elizabeth II + Boy George)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Georges, or One Nation Under A Groove (George Washington + George Clinton)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Kims, Or The Lil' Kim Jong Il (Lil' Kim + Kim Jong Il)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Pharaoh Fawcett (Farrah Fawcett + Akhenaten)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Doctors, or On the Couch (Sigmund Freud + Dr. Phil McGraw)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Evolution Will Be Televised (Charles Darwin + Planet of the Apes)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Dons, or The American Dream, or Maybe Sometimes Crime Does Pay (Marlon Brando as Don Corleone + Don King)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Burt and Ernie (Burt Reynolds + Sesame Street's Ernie)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Pope John Paul Stanley (Pope John Paul + Paul Stanley)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Franks, or Fly Me to the Moon Unit
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Raggedy Ann and Andy (Raggedy Ann + Andy Warhol)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The King of Pop Surrealism, or On and Off the Wall, or Untitled Metamorphosis) (Michael Jackson + Salvador Dalí)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Throne (Jay Z + Kanye West)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Kimye (Kim Kardashian + Kanye West)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x36 and 12x12
The Life Cinematic (Bill Murray + Wes Anderson)
Resin-coated lightjet metallic print mounted on foam core, 2012, 17 x 30, created for the 'Cinema 03' group show at Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery in Cleveland
The Vision and the Visionary (Grace Kelly + Alfred Hitchcock)
Resin-coated lightjet metallic print mounted on foam core, 2012, 17 x 30, created for the 'Cinema 03' group show at Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery in Cleveland
The Tabloid Trinity (Paris Hilton + Lindsay Lohan + Britney Spears)
resin-coated metallic c-print on panel, 36x48