Devin Troy Strother
Please Don’t Tear Down The Dancehall, 2009, gouache, acrylic, cel vinyl and silkscreen on cut paper, 23 x 29.75 inches
All The Way Back like in 1995, 2010, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkscreen, collage on panel, 54 x 68 inches
Please Mr DJ, 2010, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkscreen, collage on paper, 20 x 34 inches
The Block Is Hot, 2009, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkcreen, collage on paper, 48 x 31 inches
Big Hustle, Little Hustle, 2010, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, silkscreen, collage on panel, 30 x 40 inches
Colors, 2009, gouache, acrylic, cel vinyl, enamel, ink and silkscreen on paper, 27 x 38.5 inches
Boom For Real, 2010, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkscreen, collage on paper, 21.75 x 37 inches
Wilda Inna ’89, 2009, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkcreen, collage on paper, 10.25 x 17.5 inches
The Get Down on Your Knees and Tell Me You Love Me Love Me, 2010, media as before, 12 x 17 inches
It’s Us Versus Them, 2010, enamel, acrylic, gouache, ink, graphite, silkscreen, collage on paper, 26 x 35 inches
Artist Statement
The titles come before the work is made. I have a book that I keep of funny shit I hear or comments that I hear that are kind of interesting. It starts with a phrase or a title, and I try to generate an image that relates to the whole narrative, this world that I’m trying to make. The titles come from things I hear in rap songs or things I hear family members say, things friends say.