Jim Lambie's iconic Found Flowers Painting

You loved the way Lambie's Zobop Fluoro, 2004 amped out the entry space of MOMA for that epic "Color Chart: Reinventing Color" exhibit and the "Found Flowers" series which featured iconic pop stars like George Micheal and Grace Jones swaddled in high chromatic flowers, has been a massive cult influence for a certain body of Belgian fashion designers (check the inspiration board). As such this contemporary artist has a very acute understanding of the function of fantasy in activating pop culture glamour. As a reference point for art directors of all ilk this work reminds you that a great visual stylist can express an emotion of joy in lushly visual terms. Here is the artist's description of his process:

“the found flower projects are in keeping with my usual practice of using found or thrift-shop objects and especially music memorabelia. i combine pop posters with cut-up flower paintings which is essentially a collage. i like the way the flowers seem to grow across the images of the icons of pop, but they are anchored in a number of observations of actual events in the real world: someone carrying a bunch of flowers in front of them as i passed them in the street; someone sitting behind a vase of flowers in a restaurant window…”

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