Triple Trouble Show Another Sneak Peek

Artist: Obey Shepard Fairey/Damien Hirst/Invader
Title: Triple Trouble
Opens: October 10th, 2025
Where: Newport Street Gallery

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Will Martyr 'All I Think About' Print Available' Print Available

Artist: Will Martyr
Title: All I Think About
Medium: Diamond Dusted Spot Varnished 32 Color Screen Print
Size: 62 x 87.5 cm
Edition: 100
Price: £960

 

 Will Martyr, born 1980 in Eastbourne, UK, paints sun drenched daydreams that feel like screen-savers of memory. After the Slade School of Fine Art he spent a formative year at New York’s Studio School, absorbing Abstract Expressionist scale and urban architectural rhythms before returning to London to complete an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Working in fast-drying acrylic, he masks hard edge colour blocks with frog tape, building up to eight translucent layers until swimming pool turquoises and tennis court lilacs glow with LED intensity.

Martyr calls himself a colourist first: every hue is premixed like printing ink, calibrated to trigger instant nostalgia. Early architectural panels have evolved into circular “tondo” canvases that function like portholes or lockets, framing poolside recliners, alpine ski slopes or empty sun lounges arranged like theatre sets. The human figure often his wife appears serene and unposed, a surrogate for the viewer’s own projections of leisure, love and quiet euphoria.

Exhibitions at Maddox Gallery (London & Gstaad), Unit London and Rarity Gallery have sold out rapidly, while corporate commissions fund continual experimentation; a 2006 print edition for Equity Insurance underwrote his mastery of Coriander Studio’s archival techniques. Public recognition includes the BMW Painting Prize nomination and inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Currently based in a 1920s propeller factory studio in Deptford, Martyr is preparing new sculptural works and large scale architectural paintings that translate his utopian palettes into three-dimensional space, ensuring the vacation never quite ends.

Takashi Murakami 'Superflat Sunshine A Decade In Bloom' Available

Artist: Takashi Murakami
Title: Superflat Sunshine A Decade In Bloom
Medium: Framed 8 Color Screen Print
Size: 22 x 22 Inches
Edition: 100
Price: $2,800

 

 

Takashi Murakami (b. 1962, Tokyo) is the neon godfather of Superflat, a movement he coined to describe Japan’s legacy of compressed, two dimensional imagery that stretches from Edo woodblocks to anime cels. Armed with a BFA, MFA and PhD in Nihonga (classical Japanese painting) from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, he rebelled against the medium’s academic gatekeeping by fusing its mineral pigments and goldleaf techniques with otaku subculture, manga speed-lines and kawaii cuteness. His breakout creature, Mr. DOB a Mickey-eared, sharp toothed mascot first appeared in 1993 as a self-portrait critiquing consumerist cloning, and has since mutated across paintings, inflatables and 3 metre fiberglass sculptures that sell for millions.

Operating like a pop-culture Warhol, Murakami founded Kaikai Kiki Co., a Tokyo-New York production house that employs dozens of assistants to churn out psychedelic flower balls, sword wielding anime boys and lasso-spraying lads such as the $15.2 million My Lonesome Cowboy. His 2003 collaboration with Marc Jacobs splashed candy colored monograms onto Louis Vuitton handbags, obliterating the line between boutique and museum, while his cover for Kanye West’s Graduation and direction of the Good Morning anime cemented his role as a cross-disciplinary tastemaker.

Exhibitions at the Palace of Versailles, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and a 2025 London show where AI helped reconstruct a 1615 folding screen prove his knack for merging past and future. Beneath the rainbow petals lies a darker undertow post-Hiroshima anxiety, sexualised kawaii and the flattening of trauma into merchandise making Murakami both celebratory and cautionary, a merchant of joy who never lets us forget the price tag on escapism.

Lino Lago 'Fake Abstract' Print Available

Artist: Lino Lago
Title: Fake Abstract
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 27 x 23 Inches
Edition: 45
Price: £595

 

Lino Lago (b. 1973, Redondela, Spain) is a Madrid-trained painter who stages elegant collisions between Old-Master finesse and digital-age minimalism. After graduating from the Universidad Complutense, he became fascinated by reports of painting’s “death,” responding with the long-running Fake Abstract series: meticulous oil reproductions of Renaissance and Bourbon portraits that he half-obscures with flat monochrome or gold-leaf swipes, leaving only a sliver of face or lace visible beneath a seemingly Photoshop generated mask. The device questions authenticity, value, and how screens mediate our contact with history. Technical rigor underpins the joke each passage of flesh is modeled with 18th century glazing, while the overlay is sanded to vinyl like smoothness, so brushstroke and pixel coexist on one skin.

Lago’s work has entered public collections including Harvard Business School and the Flint Institute of Arts, and has been shown at ARCO Madrid, Pulse Miami, and in solo exhibitions from New York to Copenhagen. Awards such as the BMW Painting Prize from the Queen of Spain and the Vilnius City Arts Award confirm institutional respect for his conceptual sleight of hand. Recent shows like Multipolar (2025) expand the lexicon, pitting Caravaggio against color field slabs to evoke a fragmented, many-centered cultural world. Living between Madrid and Vilnius, Lago continues to probe how much of the past we actually need to see before we admit the present has already re-written it.

Riikka Sormunen 'Holiday, 2025' Print Release Details

Artist: Riikka Sormunen
Title: Holiday, 2025
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 20 x 20 Inches
Edition: 20
Price: £450

*available Thursday October 9th, 2025

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Riikka Sormunen (b. 1987, Helsinki) turns daydreams into jewel toned oil paintings where fashion-editorial poise meets surrealist unease. After a semester of fashion design she pivoted to illustration, building a clientele that ranged from Finnish magazines to Japanese apparel before committing solely to canvas in 2016. Working on unprimed linen, she applies thin, lucent layers of oil so crimsons and viridians bleed like textile dye, then tightens select zones lace cuffs, serpent scales, cat pupils to photographic clarity. The resulting images feel simultaneously vintage and hyper-contemporary: Klimt-like pattern fields float around blank-faced women who grip wilted bouquets or let goldfish dangle from their sleeves, every object posed as if for an unseen camera.

Influences converge in her studio: early Lucian Freud for fleshy tension, Ukiyo-e prints for flattened perspective, and Nordic folklore for latent darkness. Solo exhibitions at Allouche Gallery (LA) and Rhodes Contemporary (London) sold out rapidly, while group stints at Dallas Contemporary and the “Nordic Delights” tour confirmed international appetite. Recent pieces such as Ghost Friend and Cat’s Eye push scale toward life-size, intensifying the tension between decorative beauty and psychological vacancy. Sormunen photographs her own floral still-lifes as source material, then digitally distorts petals into acidic hues no garden could grow, reinforcing the calculated artificiality she calls “soft sensuality under surveillance.” Living back in Helsinki after residencies in Tokyo and Lisbon, she continues to probe how femininity, nature, and consumer imagery can be arranged then eerily silenced inside a single gilded frame.

Ben Johnston 'Good Things Coming' Print Available

Artist: Ben Johnston
Title: Good Things Coming
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 40 x 40 Inches
Edition: 10
Price: $750 CAD

 Ben Johnston is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist who has turned painted words into three dimensional events. Born in Canada and raised in South Africa, he trained as a graphic designer before committing full-time to muralism; that foundation still drives the meticulous kerning, hand-drawn serifs, and forced-perspective shadows that make his letters appear to levitate off brick, canvas, or polished steel. Using layered acrylics, spray paint, and an airbrush he adopted only recently, Johnston stretches, fractures, and slots language until a simple imperative “RISE,” “ORDER/CHAOS,” “LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE” becomes an optical puzzle that shifts meaning with the viewer’s stance.

Major public pieces include a five-storey mural for Toronto’s Stackt market and the 2019 Muralfest award-winner in Hamilton, while his 2023 sculpture show Wordplay at Taglialatella Gallery translated his typographic vocabulary into rotating aluminum tubes and ambiguous steel glyphs that resolve into text only when circled.

Johnston’s practice is equal parts designer rigor and street-art immediacy: preliminary vector maps are projected at dawn, color-matched to digital swatches, then painted freehand before the city wakes, preserving the spontaneity graffiti demands without sacrificing the polished finish advertising expects. The result is work that functions simultaneously as commercial communication, civic landmark, and fine-art object proof that a single well-built sentence can compete with the visual noise of an entire city block.

Josh Sperling 'Big Picture' Print Available

Artist: Josh Sperling
Title: Big Picture
Medium: Offset Print
Size: 70 x 39 cm
Edition: 100
Price: $200

Josh Sperling, born 1984 in Oneonta, New York, makes shaped canvases vibrate like neon topographies. Drawing first on screen, he feeds vector curves into a CNC router, laminating wafer thin plywood into undulating strata that echo 1960s minimalism and the Memphis Group’s playful geometry. Raw Belgian linen is then stretched over these skeletal hills, locked with staples, and saturated in custom mixed acrylic over 1,200 proprietary colors mixed in his Ithaca barn studio where ten assistants sand, seam, and spray. The resulting objects hover between painting, sculpture, and design: monochrome “Squiggles” bounce light so aggressively they seem to hum; modular “Composites” slot together like psychedelic Tetris, swallowing entire gallery walls in candy apple gradients.

Early rejection shows in skate shops that sold nothing gave way to a 2016 breakthrough at Joshua Liner Gallery, followed by rapid adoption by Emmanuel Perrotin, who now stages Sperling’s exhibitions from New York to Seoul. Public commissions include a rainbow bench for the SCAD Museum and the four-panel, 30 metre long Big Picture at Perrotin Los Angeles, purposely split so viewers register unity before noticing the seams. Influenced by Ellsworth Kelly’s hard-edge planes and Keith Haring’s rhythmic line, Sperling also credits five years as studio assistant to KAWS for demystifying the art market. Up next: limited edition furniture that translates his warped canvas language into functional ash-wood tables, ensuring the loop between utility and pure optical joy keeps spinning.

Don Pendleton 'The Old Dark House' Prints Release Details

 

Artist: Don Pendleton
Title: The Old Dark House (Orange or Blue)
Medium: Giclee Prints
Size: 18 x 24 Inches Each
Edition: 30 Each
Price: $70 Each

*available at 1pm EST on Wednesday October 8th, 2025

Drew Struzan 'Original Star Wars Trilogy' Prints Release Details

Artist: Drew Struzan
Title: Original Star Wars Trilogy (Brush Stroke Edition)
Medium: Giclee Prints
Size: 24 x 36 Inches Each
Edition: 150 Sets
Price: $260/Set

*available at Noon EST on Wednesday October 8th, 2025

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Drew Struzan (born March 18, 1947, Oregon City) is the quiet king of movie imagery: his brush gave faces to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, E.T., Harry Potter, Blade Runner, The Thing, Hook and more than 150 other campaigns, earning him the unofficial title of “the illustrator Spielberg always calls.” Raised in poverty, he sold sketches to eat, studied at Art Center College of Design, and began by airbrushing album sleeves Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare among them before Charles White III handed him the Star Wars re-release assignment that ignited Hollywood’s love affair with his luminous, hyper-detailed style.

Working in acrylic and colored pencil on gessoed board, Struzan layers transparent glazes until heroes glow with an almost back-lit humanity; subtle expressions, swirling smoke, and impossible starfields are rendered with the patience of an Old Master yet read instantly from across a lobby. When studios pivoted to photo-based posters in the 1990s, his canvases became coveted relics, sought by directors like Zemeckis, del Toro and Lucas, who insisted on painted one-sheets even as digital art took over.

Retired officially in 2015 after The Force Awakens, he still paints personal pieces, signs prints at Comic-Cons, and collaborates with his wife Dylan on book projects such as A Bloody Business. His legacy is everywhere: the determined tilt of Marty McFly’s silhouette, the torch-lit silhouette of Indy, the wand-raised promise of Harry all distilled into single, hopeful images that taught generations how adventure should feel.

Mike Mitchell + Michael Reeder 'Pied Kingfisher' Print Release Details

Artist: Mike Mitchell + Michael Reeder
Title: Pied Kingfisher (Reeder Variant)
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 8 x 10 Inches
Edition: 100
Price: $???

*available in person on October 11th, 2025 at Poor Example Store in Escalon

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Mike Mitchell (born 1970, Oklahoma City) is an American illustrator and painter whose instantly recognizable brand of candy-colored Pop Surrealism has turned him into a social-media phenomenon and gallery favorite. After studying at CalArts he worked in animation and advertising, but burst onto the art scene with a 2008 portrait of then candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a halo of retro comicbook speed lines; the image went viral, was featured on cable news, and taught him that “likes” could propel a career as surely as critics.

Working digitally and in acrylic on panel, Mitchell renders pop-culture icons Batman, Conan O’Brien, David Bowie, Spock in flat, high-key palettes reminiscent of 1980s lunchboxes, then amplifies their gaze to heroic scale so they seem both worshipped and trapped by their own fame. Limited edition screen-prints sell out in minutes, while museum retrospectives at the Norman Rockwell Museum and M Modern Gallery have validated the work beyond Instagram.

Mitchell’s grassroots #TeamCoco campaign for Conan O’Brien in 2010 proved that meme culture and fine-art printmaking can coexist profitably, and his recent Just Like Us series imagines exhausted superheroes slumped on subway seats, reminding viewers that gods are mortal too. He lives and paints in Los Angeles, continuing to blur the line between fan art and collectible contemporary artifact.