Silkscreen - Robert Mapplethorpe

Don't expect a high-quality digital file to ever be uploaded here. I have problems with the 'fair use' issues and like artists in other mediums, I think my work should be protected.

This is one of the second set of silkscreens I have hand-pulled, using my own negatives of Mapplethorpe, back in l985. I like the Warhol-like style, and go a bit farther with that idea. This one has color, but most don't.

I think you would agree with me that Robert Mapplethorpe himself is/was an object of beauty and desire. He would probably like these pieces. I'd like to think so. I am drawn to the power of his 'gaze' in this image. Here is one of the smaller ones.