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Sam Grudge

Marilyn Pt.2

"Wintering Down" collection

acrylic

42 x 21 x 1 cm

Current location: In Studio


Original artwork price: € 520

Marilyn again — because some icons refuse to stay still. This one came out of a session of pure play: stencil work, spray, and a certain recklessness I hadn't let myself have in a while. The face emerged in black and white, raw and graphic, and then I pushed color back into it — blue shadow, red mouth — like emotion bleeding through a mask. The heart lives below her, half-dissolved into the surface, as if the whole thing is still being figured out. That's the honest part. She's not a tribute and she's not a critique. She's a question about what we project onto faces we think we know. Signed in red, 2025 — because this moment is as much a part of the work as the paint.