Richard Hambleton | Nightlife | Standing Shadow Follow Your Dreams

Richard Hambleton | Nightlife | Standing Shadow Follow Your DreamsRichard Hambleton (19522017) Nightlife Standing Shadow Mixed media on paper Original The Shadowman is Hambleton's defining contribution to the visual language of the late twentieth century: a silhouette, painted in black, appearing on unexpected surfaces in cities around the world. In the early 1980s, these figures haunted Manhattan's Lower East Side present at the edge of vision, suggesting danger in a city that still carried real danger on its

the interstellar clouds of gas and dust that are the birthplaces of stars

and the particular atmosphere of a place that has always been a stage for the performance of a certain kind of life

the vibrant imagery

ceramics and bronze to everyday and unexpected items like pills

The rare Artist's Proof format makes this among the most significant available versions

Bambi — the anonymous British female street artist whose stencil work has earned her a collector base including Brad Pitt

and the beauty of purposeful arrangement

and the specific atmosphere of a room at a particular hour of the night

that is never quite the same painting twice

Available at Creed Gallery Ascot

The street art tradition has always been interested in the canonical image — in what happens when you place the most famous painting in the world on a wall rather than in a museum

Original lithographs | 1983 | Published 1990