Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen the paintings interpret iconic LA

the paintings interpret iconic LA locations through Israel’s take on noir aesthetics

Edited by Thomas D

“There Goes My Hero

perfect-bound volumes with metallic silver covers and a color lithograph

from 1951 through 2011

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen the paintings interpret iconic LAIn Self Portrait (Green Beard) (2017), a print produced by Mixografia, Alex Israel depicts his own sunglasses clad face in profile, replacing his features with smoothly gradated color fields. Editioned in six different color combinations, Self Portrait features a white outline of the artists head in raised relief with a hollow, contoured interior. Making use of a 1980s style palette that juxtaposes neon and pastel hues, Israel evokes the distinctive