Alexis "Bust" Stephens 'Felides Couple' HPM Available
Monday, October 27, 2025 
Artist: Alexis "Bust" Stephens
Title: Felides Couple
Medium: Hand Embellished Screen Print
Size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 45
Price: €170
Alexis Bust Stephens, alias Bust the Drip, is a Paris born painter who turns motion into pigment. His mother is French, his father Jamaican, and from childhood he felt music as vibration in his bones. Hip hop dance came first; he competed across Europe, spinning on cardboard, feeling the beat as waves that traveled from floor to heart. When he picked up a brush he kept that rhythm, translating leaps and freezes into streaks of spray, acrylic, and graphite. He sees the body as an organized storm of waves, each gesture a note in an unseen score.
On canvas he choreographs lines that twist, stretch, and break, letting color drip like sweat after a six step. The process is both technical and instinctive: he layers, scrapes, revises, until figures emerge mid movement, caught between blur and focus. Abstract expressionism gives him freedom, graffiti gives him speed, and dance gives him pulse. Recent years have brought major recognition: a mural for Barack Obama’s Brilliant Minds gathering in Stockholm, inclusion in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne celebrating hip hop’s entry into the games, and sold out shows in Paris, Düsseldorf, and beyond. Yet he still slips out at night to paste paper or set tiles on suburban walls, sharing positive frequencies with commuters who rarely enter galleries. Whether on a huge public façade or an intimate sheet of paper, every piece is a reminder that we are all sums of organized waves, pulsating, leaning, reaching for the next beat.
