‘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 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."
"Troy's paintings are hyper-graphic iconic images in perfectly matched complementary colors. The morphed pairings create a camouflage of acrylic. They're really striking and they're hard to read, so you really have to visually investigate. Then you realize that it's both John Wayne and Elton John superimposed over each other. Which is funny in and of itself, but then you realize that John Wayne was an avowed homophobe while Elton John is an avowed homosexual. Funny and smart."
Joey Veltkamp — "Say Hello to Troy Gua", Best Of
La Dada Gaga (Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. + Lady Gaga)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Elton John Wayne (Elton John + John Wayne)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Michaels (Michael Jackson at 10, 30, and 50 years of age)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
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"
The Jacks, or On the Road to Camelot (Jack Kerouac + John F. Kennedy)
Resin-coated acrylic on canvas, 2010, 36 x 36
The Ronald McReagan (Ronald Reagan + Ronald McDonald)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 36 x 36"
The Salvador Dali Lama (Salvador Dali + The Dalai Lama)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Enlightened (Gandhi + Yoda)
Resin-coated acrylic on canvas, 2011, 36 x 36
The Pleasure Is All Mine
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2009, 48 x 48"
The Rons (Ron Howard + Ron Jeremy)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Man Ray Charles, or Sound and Vision (Man Ray + Ray Charles)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
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 acrylic on canvas, 2010, 36 x 36
The Divine (Divine + Jesus Christ)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Trippers (Aldous Huxley + John Ritter)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2011, 36 x 36
The Importance of Being Ernest, or Men Without Women (Ernest Hemingway + Oscar Wilde)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Lizard King of Kings (Jim Morrison + Jesus Christ)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36
The Artists Formerly and Currently Known As Prince
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Queens of England (Queen Elizabeth II + Boy George)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Georges, or One Nation Under A Groove (George Washington + George Clinton)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Kims, Or The Lil' Kim Jong Il (Lil' Kim + Kim Jong Il)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Mickey Mao (Mickey Mouse + Chaiman Mao Zedong)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Pharaoh Fawcett (Farrah Fawcett + Akhenaten)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Doctors, or On the Couch (Sigmund Freud + Dr. Phil McGraw)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2011, 36 x 36
The Brains and The Beauty (Albert Einstein + Marilyn Monroe)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Davids (Michelangelo's David + David Bowie)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Davids 2.0 (Michelangelo's David + David Bowie)
Acrylic and resin on MDF panel, 2009, 36 x 36"
The Alexander and Ali, or The Great and The Greatest (Alexander The Great + Muhammad Ali)
Resin-coated acrylic on canvas, 2010, 36 x 36
The Raggedy Ann and Andy (Raggedy Ann + Andy Warhol)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Evolution Will Be Televised (Charles Darwin + Planet of the Apes)
Acrylic and resin on canvas, 2008, 48 x 48"
The Dons, or The American Dream, or Maybe Sometimes Crime Does Pay (Marlon Brando as Don Corleone + Don King)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Bert and Ernie (Bert 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 Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2010, 36 x 36
The Tabloid Trinity (Paris Hilton + Lindsay Lohan + Britney Spears)
Resin-coated Lightjet Metallic Print Mounted on 6mm Sintra, 2011, 36 x 48
recent installation at Joe Bar in Seattle
recent installation at Joe Bar in Seattle
recent installation at Joe Bar in Seattle