Andrew VanSickle Original 'Frank Baron' Portrait on Canvas

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An 2009 original portrait of Frank Baron, ‘Rookwood Style’ by acclaimed Cincinnati artist, Andrew VanSickle. The oval work features a surreal portrait, the gent dressed in blue suit with a lavender tie, his visage rendered in pale tones with reddish hair and piercing blue eyes. The background is a cosmic kaleidoscope of exotic patterning in blues, russet, and green The work is unframed and signed to the reverso. Known for his signature depictions of American pop culture icons, VanSickle has been inspired without formal education in painting, to emerged on the Cincinnati art scene and outside the mainstream of the visual art community’s traditional museums and galleries. Instead, his bold graphic works have proliferated Cincinnati’s affluent youth demimonde of nightclubs and chic upscale restaurants. VanSickle remarks, ‘I choose to create unconventional spaces where people socialize and celebrate while interacting with strong, graphic pop images, both mythical and archetypical… people experience energy and buzz that they won’t find just looking at canvases hanging in an art gallery.’ VanSickle has evolved into a prolific artist/communicator through self-started experimentation and through his meaningful interactions and collaborations with such celebrated artists as Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, and Andy Warhol’s older brother Paul Warhola.

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small nail to the top

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13CIN248-047