Icons & Vandals celebrates the boundary-breakers of 20th and 21st-century art visionaries who have disrupted, reshaped, and redefined the global art landscape This exhibition brings together iconic names and audacious rule-breakers, whose groundbreaking movements have left an enduring impact on contemporary culture. With artwork spanning 60 years, Icons & Vandals highlights the creative tension between establishment and rebellion, tracing how artistic defiance fuels innovation Rediscover legendary figures and bold provocateurs as this show unpacks the everevolving relationship between disruption and progress. Experience the lasting impact of these trailblazers and the artistic revolutions they ignited
From Andy Warhol’s pop provocations to James Rosenquist’s cinematic scale, the artists in Icons & Vandals have each shattered conventions and redefined artistic expression Robert Indiana’s bold text-based works, Robert Rauschenberg’s fearless experimentation, and Joan Miró’s surrealist visions disrupted the art world of their time, just as Sol LeWitt’s conceptual rigor and Alex Katz’s crisp portraiture pushed new visual boundaries. This rebellious spirit thrives in the street-smart activism of Shepard Fairey, the dynamic energy of Tristan Eaton, and the technicolor dreamscapes of Kenny Scharf. Icons & Vandals debuts new work by Graffiti legend SABER, whose monumental lettering and raw, expressive strokes continue to push the limits of urban art The exhibition features over a dozen new works by Mr. Brainwash, whose signature fusion of pop culture and street art continues to electrify audiences. A selection of neon works by local Austin icon Todd Sanders, cast a bold, electric glow, bridging the city’s creative pulse with the global legacy of artistic disruption
Open for three weeks only, don’t miss joining West Chelsea Contemporary in celebrating the fearless visionaries who continue to challenge, innovate, and inspire.
ANDY WARHOL
American, 1928 - 1987
Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images He drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter in his most famous works: his 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, for example. Rejecting the dominant painting and sculpting modes of his day, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His provocative successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. His works have sold for upwards of $100 million at auction.
After Andy Warhol
Souper Dress (/Unknown), 1966-67
Screenprint in colors on cellulose and cotton paper dress
46" x 36 25"
$13,000
Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato) (/Unknown), 1981
Screenprint on cotton t-shirt
25" x 25"
$34,000
JAMES ROSENQUIST
American, 1933 - 2017
Leading Pop artist James Rosenquist—who came to prominence among New York School figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning is well known for his large-scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas (notably, from 1957-60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter). In his use of mass-produced goods and vernacular culture rendered in an anonymous style, Rosenquist's work recalls that of Andy Warhol, while his seemingly irrational, mysterious pictorial combinations owe a debt to Surrealism. His breakthrough work, the iconic F-111 (1965) 51 panels that total over 22 by 24 feet juxtaposes an American fighter plane with a Firestone tire, garish orange tinned spaghetti, and a young girl under a hair dryer.
Woman in the Sun (52/60), 1991
James Rosenquist
15 color lithograph from aluminum plate on mouldmade paper, white Rives BFK
33" x 42 5"
$5,500
Night Transitions (PP 2/4), 1985
12 color lithograph on Arches paper
James Rosenquist
47" x 30"
$6,500
James Rosenquist
South (from Horse Blinders) (29/85), 1972
Color lithograph and silkscreen with silver foil collage on Arches paper
36 50" x 64 25"
$6,000
James Rosenquist
North (from Horse Blinders) (29/85), 1972
Color lithograph and silkscreen with silver foil collage on Arches paper
36 50" x 64 25"
$6,000
James Rosenquist
West (from Horse Blinders) (29/85), 1972
Color lithograph and silkscreen with silver foil collage on Arches paper
36 50" x 68"
$6,000
1983
James Rosenquist
Ice Point (145/150),
Lithograph on Arches Cover paper
33 50" x 24 25"
$5,500
ROBERT INDIANA American, 1928 - 2018
Robert Indiana was an American Pop artist whose work drew inspiration from signs, billboards, and commercial logos He is best known for his series of LOVE paintings, which employed bold and colorful letterforms to spell out the word “love.” Following the advice of his friend Ellsworth Kelly, the artist relocated to New York after receiving his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. It was here that Indiana became acquainted with a number of prominent artists, including Agnes Martin, and James Rosenquist. Over the following decades his work became increasingly popular, with both his LOVE and HOPE motifs transformed into a number of public sculptures In September 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened “Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE,” the artist’s first retrospective in New York. Indiana died on May 19, 2018 in Vinalhaven, ME. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, among others
Robert Indiana
Hope Wall - Black and White (AP 4/4), 2009
Silkscreen on wove paper
23" x 23"
$9,750
Robert Indiana
Hope Wall - Red, White and Blue (AP 2/4), 2010
Silkscreen on wove paper
24" x 24"
$9,750
Robert Indiana
HEAL (positive variation) (16/25), 2015
Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board
33" x 32"
$20,500
Robert Indiana
HEAL (red, green, blue variation) (PP 5/5), 2015
Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board
32" x 32"
$25,500
Robert Indiana Love Is God (9/25), 2014
Silkscreen on 2ply Rising Museum Board
60" x 60"
$41,000
Chosen Love
, 1995
Robert Indiana
(87/125)
Skein dyed, hand carved and hand tufted archival
New Zealand wool on stretched canvas 119" x 120"
$17,750
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
American, 1925 - 2008
Over the course of his six-decade career, Robert Rauschenberg embraced pop culture, technical experimentation, and material eclecticism Today, he’s perhaps best known for his radical, three-dimensional “Combines” which he composed from discarded materials and mundane objects such as sheet metal, newspaper, tires, and umbrellas and for his colorful silkscreen paintings on which he screen-printed, then painted over, collaged photographs sourced from books and magazines In 1964, Rauschenberg made history when he became the first American to win the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In the years since, Rauschenberg has been the subject of solo shows at the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Moderna Museet, among other institutions. His work belongs in collections worldwide and has sold for tens of millions at auction.
Rauschenberg Health (from Tribute 21) (39/50), 1994
Lithograph in colors with vegetable dye water transfer on Arches Infinity paper
41" x 27 25"
$8,500
Robert
Lithograph in colors on Special Arjomari paper
45 80" x 31"
$25,000
Robert Rauschenberg
Arena II (from Stoned Moon Series) (9/50), 1969
ROBERT
LONGO American, b 1953
Robert Longo is known for large-scale, hyperrealistic charcoal portraits that consider power, authority, and social unrest In the early 1980s, Longo earned acclaim for his bold “Men in the Cities” series, which features business-suited subjects posed in uncanny contortions. Since then, he has depicted scenes from the Occupy Wall Street movement, the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, Black Lives Matter protests, and refugee migrations A member of the loose cohort of Pictures Generation artists who repurpose mass media images in their artwork, Longo has drawn on photographs and art historical works for inspiration. He often uses a monochromatic palette, carefully building his charcoal surfaces to create a sense of depth and contrast. Longo has exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other institutions. On the secondary market, his work has sold for seven-figure prices. Longo’s practice also includes photography, performance, and sculpture
Robert Longo
Ivy Mike (9/15), 2010
Archival pigment print on Epson Hot-Pressed paper
44 63" x 34"
$17,600
Jules (6/10 AP), 1982-83
with embossing on Arches
36 50" x 21"
$25,000
Robert Longo
Lithograph
SOL LEWITT
American, 1928 - 2007
Sol LeWitt famously stressed the importance of the ideas that animated his artwork over the particulars of their execution A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, he maintained a practice that included drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and writing. He is perhaps best known for simple, geometric drawings and wall paintings and for his “structures”: modular sculptures of cubed forms, variously constructed from steel, polyurethane, wood, or concrete. LeWitt also received attention for his writings on the nature of Conceptual art. To “install” his wall paintings, contemporary exhibition spaces must follow a set of instructions the artist left behind LeWitt received his BFA from Syracuse University. After graduating, he took classes at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (now the School of Visual Arts), worked as a graphic designer and, later, worked shifts at the Museum of Modern Art alongside artists such as Dan Flavin and Robert Mangold His work has been exhibited in a number of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami; it also belongs in the collections of countless museums including the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, Dia Beacon, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris
Sol LeWitt
Color Bands, Plate #06 (49/75), 2000
Linocut in colors on Somerset paper
28 75" x 28 75"
$7,500
Sol LeWitt
Color Bands, Plate #01 (49/75), 2000
Linocut in colors on Somerset paper
29" x 29"
$7,500
JOAN MIRÓ
Spanish, 1893 - 1983
Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists (though he was never officially part of the group), Joan Miró was also a pioneer of automatism: a method of spontaneous drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic manner, developing intricate compositions and a wandering linear style that combined abstract elements with recurring motifs such as birds, eyes, and the moon During his lifetime, Miró received the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at the 1954 Venice Biennale, exhibited at the first Documenta exhibition in 1955, and enjoyed multiple high-profile retrospectives. Today, Miró’s work which has sold for eight figures at auction can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. His public sculptures and murals are installed in cities around the world, including Milan, Paris, and Barcelona.
Joan Miró
Les Forestiers (/75), 1958
Color aquatint on Rives BFK paper
26 13" x 19 75"
$24,000
Joan Miró
Le Lezard aux Plumes d’Or (/100), 1967
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
14" x 39"
$28,000
Joan Miró Le Puisatier (26/75), 1969
Etching and aquatint in colors
41 75" x 26 25"
$27,500
33
Joan Miró
The Illiterate with Red Squares (23/75), 1969
Lithograph on red and white checkered cloth pasted against Mandeure chiffon paper
50" x 23 75"
$19,500
ALEX KATZ
American, b 1927
New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum. Katz' work resides in numerous public collections across the world, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
Alex Katz
Sasha 2 (75/100), 2016
Archival pigment print in colors on Crane Museo Max paper
33 87" x 33 87"
$21,500
TODD SANDERS
American, b 1967
Contemporary neon artist Todd Sanders crafts his vintage-style designs using durable modern materials and specialized weathering techniques Evoking the glory days of roadside America, Sanders’ work resembles old relics rescued from forgotten attractions on abandoned highways. Sanders calls his style modern vintage, but considers himself a pop artist, sharing a rich artistic vein mined by Andy Warhol and other pop-culture iconographers A Montgomery, TX native, Sanders began pursuing his muse in earnest after moving to Austin, Sanders’ work is prized by his collectors, including Willie Nelson, Shepard Fairey, Edie Brickell/Paul Simon, Joe Rogan, Johnny Depp, ZZ Top, and Kings of Leon Sanders’ pieces have appeared in several films, as well as the pages of Esquire, Fortune, Texas Monthly, and Southern Living magazine. The original version of his most popular design, his animated “Fireflies in a Mason Jar,” was created for the wedding of fellow Texan Miranda Lambert to Blake Shelton Several of his works have hung in the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles.
Todd Sanders
3 Stilettos (5/5), 2025
Neon, metal, and paint
61" x 36"
$23,500
Todd Sanders
Modern (8/20), 2019
Neon, metal, and paint
44" x 73"
$21,500
Todd Sanders
Razor Blade (1/5), 2024
Neon, metal, paint, and paper
50" x 92 75"
$25,000
Todd Sanders
Turquoise Luchador (2/25), 2023
Neon, metal, and paint
61 50" x 43 50"
$23,500
MR. BRAINWASH
French, b 1966
A provocative figure in the world of street art, Mr. Brainwash practices an irreverent brand of appropriation characterized by the use of copyrighted images from history, popular culture, and art history. The artist subtly alters the picture or its context, mischievously undermining the tone of the source material. Brainwash, a pseudonym for Thierry Guetta, is known for producing massive spectacles to display his art He came to prominence through mounting large-scale public projects in his current home of Los Angeles and as the main figure in the Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop. His work hinges on the idea that anything is possible in his practice “Art has no walls Anybody can be an artist,” he says “Art has no rules. There’s no manual.”
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
Mr. Brainwash
Balloon Girl, 2023
41 25" x 36"
$54,000
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
Mr. Brainwash Smile, 2024
64 25" x 64 25"
$92,000
Mr. Brainwash
Work Well Together, 2025
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
20 5" x 16 5"
$23,000
With All My Love, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
20 5" x 16 5"
$23,000
Mr. Brainwash
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
Mr. Brainwash
Pop Wall, 2023
27" x 36"
$45,000
Brainwash Keep It Unreal, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
33 75" x 29 75"
$38,000
Mr.
Mr. Brainwash
Love Is The Answer, 2022
Neon lightbulb, stencil, and mixed media on canvas panel with splashed frame
25 5" x 29"
$71,500
Mr. Brainwash Work Well Together, 2022
Neon lightbulb, silkscreen, and mixed media on wood in plexiglass box
48" x 36"
$71,500
Mr. Brainwash
Einstein, 2022
Oil on canvas
50" x 38"
$64,000
You Drive Me Crazy, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper 22" x 28"
Mr. Brainwash
$10,900
Mr. Brainwash
Flower And Sun, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper
30" x 22"
$10,900
Mr. Brainwash
Brother's Advice, 2023
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper
36" x 36"
$19,600
Express Yourself, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper 22" x 22"
$9,900
Mr. Brainwash
Mr. Brainwash
Balloon Girl, 2025
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper
30" x 22"
$10,900
Mr. Brainwash
Love Is In The Air, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper
20" x 16"
$8,000
Never, Never Give Up!, 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on paper
Mr. Brainwash
22" x 22"
$9,900
Mr. Brainwash
Life is Beautiful - Red, 2020
Enamel steel sculpture
44" x 70" x 12"
$75,000
Life Is Beautiful - Hard Candy Green (4/8), 2020
Chrome-painted cast resin sculpture 11" x 17" x 3 12"
$14,000
Mr. Brainwash
Life Is Beautiful - Hard Candy Orange (4/8), 2020
Chrome-painted cast resin sculpture 11" x 17" x 3 12"
$14,000
Mr. Brainwash
Mr. Brainwash
Love Is The Answer, 2024
Acrylic on cast resin sculpture
6.5" x 10.25" x 1.5"
$5,000
Mr. Brainwash
Art Is Not A Crime, 2023
Stencil and mixed media on resin sculpture
11 5" x 14 75" x 3"
$11,000
SABER
American, b 1976
Saber, also known as Ryan Weston Shook, is an American graffiti artist and painter working in Los Angeles The Washington Post described him as one of "the best and most respected artists" in his field. Saber graduated from Thousand Oaks High School and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Rising to international fame at the age 21, Saber created the world's largest graffiti piece on the bank of the LA river, which was visible and documented by satellites in space Over years of dedicated and often dangerous painting, he helped bring public awareness to the true art form of graffiti. Saber's work has influenced a generation of artists and graphic designers and has become an influential part of modern entertainment, social media, and art for social reform. He continues to make his vibrant, mesmerizing, and often political paintings that can be found in galleries and private collections across the word.
SABER
Light Whips Through Shadows, 2019
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 72"
$20,500
SABER
Language, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 60"
$25,500
SABER
Magenta, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 60"
$20,500
SABER
Violet, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 60"
$13,000
SABER
Unburied Names #3, 2013 Mixed media on panel
48" x 48"
$7,500
SABER
Untitled Flag, 2025
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 60"
$18,000
SABER
Purple & Silver, 2023
Mixed media on canvas
59 75" x 84"
$26,500
SABER
Violence, 2014
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 60"
$18,500
KENNY SCHARF
American, b 1958
Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical, large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures. Though Scharf’s brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf moved to New York to receive his BFA, where he became a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement alongside Keith Haring The artist says he has been influenced by all 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons and his humorous depiction of snack food. Scharf’s oftentimes dense and frenetic compositions also echo a Baroque sensibility.
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf Furungle Blue (23/25), 2021
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf Furungle Red (23/25), 2021
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf Furungle Orange (12/25), 2021
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf Furungle Green (12/25), 2021
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf
Furungle Gold (23/25), 2021
Archival pigment ink print with silkscreened high gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
42" x 42"
$8,950
Kenny Scharf
Furungle Black (23/25), 2021
In search of a new tomorrow-From Columbus (AP/100), 1992
Screenprint on Fabriano 300g paper
30" x 22 75"
$5,150
Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf Signed Tony Shafrazi 2nd Show Poster (/50), 1985
Offset lithograph on gloss poster stock
29" x 23"
$1,950
CLEON PETERSON
American, b 1973
With an aesthetic rooted in graphic design and a style reminiscent of Greco-Roman vases, Cleon Peterson’s work depicts a world in which deviance is the norm His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ description of life as a war between individuals and symbolize a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. Peterson received his MFA from The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, MI and BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He now lives and works in Los Angeles. His allegorical works contrast good with evil, and violence with victim in the tradition of Caravaggio, Goya, and Delacroix In 2018 Peterson’s work was featured in a solo exhibition, entitled Cleon Peterson: Shadow of Men, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. His work resides in numerous notable private collections worldwide.
Cleon Peterson
Burnout - Black (51/100), 2021
Black and yellow screen print
16" x 16"
$850
Cleon Peterson
Canceled - Black (43/100), 2021
Hand-pulled black and yellow screen print on 290gsm Arches
Rag paper with deckled edges
16" x 16"
$850
Cleon Peterson
Untitled (Soldier), 2015 Diptych, acrylic on panel
96" x 48"
$45,000
West Chelsea Contemporary is much more than the typical gallery. Offering worldclass art in a dynamic, interactive setting WCC produces museum-quality exhibitions year-round with programming that is free and open to the public.
West Chelsea Contemporary’s collection includes artists influential to Pop Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Post-Graffiti and contemporary art as well as tastemakers of these movements. With a local, national, and international roster of represented artists, West Chelsea Contemporary situates artwork from the primary market alongside a highly curated selection of pieces from the secondary market This novel display of represented, emerging and mid-career artists alongside Blue Chip masters increases each artist’s exposure and serves to make connections between their work.
