Tuesday Edition: Hollis Brown Thornton

When We Were Kings by Hollis Brown Thornton
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200) | 24"x30" ($1000)

Boo, collectors! Did I scare you? As Halloween nears, we're gearing up for all sorts of spooks and sweets. Apropos to the holiday that hallows ghosts, ghouls and haunted souls is Hollis Brown Thornton's latest addition to his suite of prints: When We Were Kings.

HBT's smiling skull and candy-colored sparkles swirling in space is, like his other works, made from a drawing done with markers. But, it's a slight departure from his more nostalgic prints about once-loved, now-obsolete media and technology, and is an homage of sorts to contemporary artist Damien Hirst's For the Love of God sculpture and the Ali/Foreman fight and documentary. In his statement, HBT makes no bones about our shared destinies, saying, "The skull is the great equalizer: No matter who you are, everyone eventually leaves behind a skull."

SPEAKING OF SKULLS AND SPOOKS (AND SWEETS!)
We have a couple more prints you might have missed that celebrate the season of costumes. Among them, Amy Stein's pair of c-prints from her Halloween in Harlem series offers a serious steal for all of you collectors—she painstakingly printed both editions herself, the old-fashioned way, in a darkroom. Hulk and Powerpuff Girls were introduced by Jen about this time last year, so read up on what she said then.

Looking for something that's more treat than trick? Check out Michelle Hinebrook's colorful Sugarcoat and Jonathan Lewis' stripy See Candy series, of which we've featured Sweethearts, Dots and Jelly Belly. For more tricks: Alex Beeching's starry skulls are a constellation imagined and drawn in Momento Vitae.

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