Mr Oreke - THE SHERIFF

Original artwork
Acrylic on cotton canvas
Signed bottom right and verso
100x700cm
10 cm margin to trim the piece
Total size 110x80cm

Canvas shipped rolled in a tube

Certificate of authenticity

Born in 1986, Mr.Oreke is a self-taught French artist who describes his work as “Street Pop Art.” In the early 2000s he encountered the visual arts through graffiti. Equipped with his spray cans, he begins by decorating walls with his colorful drawings before continuing his gesture on canvas. His style inherits from the Pop Art movement and the aesthetics of comics. Abstraction predominates over the style of his early years. The uniqueness of Mr.Oreke is perceived in his backgrounds, which he mostly exploits with aerosol, in the graffiti manner. The artist combines ink with acrylic, and sometimes heterogeneous elements such as banknotes. The narration, tinted with humor, is endowed with whimsy and a liberating energy. A formal freedom is added by a mix of collages, drips, typographic elements... and it echoes comic strips.