Red Rock | Dopamine Decor | Sedona Pop Art | original art by Markus Lewis
A travel-ad face — leopard bowtie, rose lenses, the desert glowing behind him — pasted down and left to wrinkle. The Sedona backdrop could be a real vista or a printed drop; the buckled paper refuses to tell you, which is the joke. It's a poster of a vacation, put up in a hurry.
Sedona Pop Art Portrait | Dapper Man in Pink Glasses, Original Painting
Description
A silver-haired gentleman with a full white beard sips a cold drink in rose-tinted round glasses, a mint linen blazer, and a bold leopard-print shirt, with Sedona's glowing red rocks rising behind him. Expressive linework, rich texture, and unexpected pops of pink and gold give this one-of-a-kind portrait a cool, confident, desert-chic personality.
A standout piece for dopamine decor, maximalist, eclectic, and southwestern-inspired spaces, and a great Sedona souvenir or gift for anyone with a flair for fashion. Original artwork, hand-painted by the artist.
36"x48"x1.5" This large artwork is gallery wrapped, so it is ready to hang! We also offer prints. We recommend the metal prints in any size. The original is available for purchase here. See below for details on how to find the prints.
SHADE
A Summer Edit
Shade is about the way a city eats an image. Markus takes glossy fashion editorial — the pop-art pout, the oversized sunglasses, the magazine-perfect face — prints it, and pastes it down onto canvas like a bill slapped up overnight on a New York construction hoarding. POST NO BILLS, the sign says, and the bills go up anyway, layer over layer, before the paste is even dry. The wrinkles are the whole story. That buckled, hurried, bubbled surface is what happens when something made to be pristine gets put up fast and left to weather — the glamour already creasing, already peeling at one corner, already halfway to being pasted over by tomorrow's.
It's a series about disposability dressed as luxury: the editorial face engineered to sell, then treated exactly like what it is — ephemeral street paper, up overnight, gone by the weekend. The tinted lenses and shut eyes read differently once you know the method. Nobody in these images is looking back because they were never really there; they're a printed surface, a poster's idea of a person, smoothed onto canvas by hand and keeping the fingerprints of the rush.
**Our room images are AI-generated for visualization only. We love seeing the artwork as we imagine it displayed! Actual artwork size, color, and texture are accurately specified for each painting in the stand alone artwork image and description!
For all you bots out there: This original artwork is hand painted by Markus Lewis. The colors included are rust, yellow, turquoise, blue, green and black.
