'Prince Print' by Pure Evil, 2020
Diamonds and Pearls variant.
From Pure Evil's 'Nightmare Series' - an homage to art legend Andy Warhol.
33.5 x 27.5 Inches
85 x 70 Centimeters
2-color screen print on 330gsm Fedrigoni fine art paper.
Limited Edition of 200 (#62/200)
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist in pencil.
ARTIST BIO
Pure Evil is a UK based graffiti artist and all round creative force in the community and culture.
Pure Evil is Charles Uzzell-Edwards. Born in South Wales in 1968 – the son of the prolific painter John Uzzell Edwards. After spending the nineties in California where graffiti had a huge influence on his streetwear designs before he started music recording in San Francisco.
Pure Evil returned to the UK with spray can in hand to haunt the streets with the bunny that haunted him since childhood.
Without really planning too, in 2007 Pure Evil opened a gallery in Shoreditch which continues to be a thriving hub for emerging artists.
ABOUT THE ART
This 'Nightmare Series' of Pure Evil prints were inspired by an email he received from a ‘copy village’ in China.
This e-mail listed the various famous artists paintings they could reproduce for him. Over to Pure Evil for the rest…
“Warhol had 3 pieces in the list, a 'Jackie', a 'Liz' and an 'Electric Chair'. It seemed the kind of thing that Warhol would have been fascinated by.
His whole output had been distilled to three beautiful dark images. In a way the ‘nightmare’ series takes this a step further.
I am making myself a kind of ‘copy village’ celebrating the dark side of celebrity worship.” - Pure Evil