Wes Lang 'Thank You God' Print Available

Artist: Wes Lang
Title: Thank You God
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 104 x 81.4 cm
Edition: 35
Price: $2,500

*application open until 8am on Friday October 31st, 2025

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Wes Lang is an American artist born in 1972 who works from a studio in the desert outside Los Angeles. He paints, draws and collages images that mix American folklore, biker culture, hip hop lyrics and old sailor tattoos into dense fields of black, gold and blood red. Using oil, acrylic, ink and found paper on canvas, he builds each piece through layers of drawing and overpainting so that skulls, eagles, pin up girls and religious icons seem to float in a smoky haze.

Lang begins by collecting vintage photographs, motorcycle magazines and record sleeves, then cuts and pastes fragments onto the canvas before painting loose, swaggering lines around them. The result is work that feels both raw and refined, like a sacred chapel decorated with roadhouse graffiti. His large scale paintings often incorporate handwritten phrases lifted from blues songs or hip hop tracks, turning personal anthems into visual mantras.

Major exhibitions include shows at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, while his work resides in collections belonging to fashion designer Marc Jacobs and rapper Kanye West, who commissioned Lang to create imagery for the 2013 Yeezus tour. Despite such high profile attention, Lang remains reclusive, preferring long motorcycle rides and studio sessions to public appearances.

By merging reverence for American craft with the reckless spirit of counterculture, Wes Lang creates art that celebrates life while staring hard at mortality, proving that beauty and darkness can ride side by side across an endless desert highway.