Preston Paperboy | MLISA2 Pulp Fiction and persecution

and persecution

Where depression suggests a medical condition — something that can be treated

the dress code as both instruction and invitation

The result is a painting that rewards more sustained attention than almost anything else in her catalogue — a work that opens up slowly

Preston Paperboy | MLISA2 Pulp Fiction and persecutionPreston Paperboy MLISA2 Original painting Preston Paperboy brings to the Mona Lisa the most reproduced, most discussed, most parodied image in the history of Western art a visual language drawn from street art, graffiti, and the urban aesthetic that has increasingly defined serious contemporary painting since the 1980s. MLISA2 is his second engagement with the subject: a work that takes da Vinci's enigmatic figure and places her in a visual context