Antoine Stevens (1987) - Skateboard

Antoine Stevens – "Skateboard", 2022
Acrylic on wooden skateboard
84 × 21 × 1 cm
Unique artwork – signed

This work by Antoine Stevens reinterprets the emblematic object of urban culture to make it a true pictorial support. On this skateboard deck, the artist unfolds an intense and fragmented female portrait, almost appearing, where the gaze becomes immediately the emotional anchor of the composition.

The painting blends drips, superpositions, spontaneous gestures and projections inherited from graffiti and street art, while the nuances of turquoise, magenta, burgundy, black and white create a very contemporary visual vibration. The visible wood retains a raw dimension that contrasts with the delicacy of the face depicted.

Through this work, Antoine Stevens develops what today makes the singularity of his practice: a meeting between the energy of urban art and the tradition of the classical portrait. The verticality of the skateboard reinforces here the sculptural and dynamic aspect of the piece, transforming a daily object into an expressive and singular work of art.

Very decorative and immediately identifiable, this creation fits perfectly into the contemporary universe of the artist, known for his powerful and emotional female portraits.

Antoine Stevens is a French artist from the north of France, born in 1987. Emerging from graffiti culture, he develops from the early 2000s a studio practice combining street art, contemporary portrait and expressive painting. His work, exhibited in France but also in London, Monaco, Singapore or Luxembourg, is characterized by a fusion between urban techniques and classical references. Through his female portraits, Antoine Stevens explores emotion, the gaze and the power of the feminine, in a painting that is at once raw, sensitive and contemporary.