Grethekell — Miami, FL

Paintings by Grethekell, also known as Grethell Cardenas, working in Miami, FL. Flat colour, thick black line, acrylic and spray paint. The gallery is a three-dimensional space you fly through by scrolling; the full list of works follows.

Works

1. Good Vibes

   Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, with neon, 2023. A mylar smiley going soft against a painted sky, lit by real neon.

2. Dalí

   Acrylic on canvas, 2021. Shown at Red Dot Miami with Perseus Gallery, booth 102.

3. I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I Know Who I’m Becoming

   Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2022.

4. Happy Meal

   Acrylic on canvas, 2023. Green hair, yellow jacket, and a logo doing the punchline.

5. Error: No Signal

   Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2023. One red field, a crashed dialog box, and a wall of noise underneath.

6. Half Full

   Acrylic on canvas, 2023. A face bent through a glass of water, in greyscale, under high gloss.

7. Tracksuits

   Acrylic on canvas, 2022. Two kids in red against yellow and grey, cut out with a white line.

8. Frida

   Mural, acrylic and spray paint, 2021. Painted straight onto the studio wall, gold roses and orange rain.

9. Astro

   Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2021. Cartoon rocket-arm around a rapper. Flat colour, hard black line.

10. Hundred

    Acrylic and ink on canvas, 2020. Engraving hatch by hand, at four feet tall, with a halo.

11. Stop Here

    Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2021. Horror-comic ghoul working the drive-through.

12. The Child

    Acrylic on canvas, 2022. Gold armour, green kid, and not one soft edge anywhere.

13. Quid Pro Quo

    Acrylic and handprints on canvas, 2020. Greyscale except for the parts that are not.

14. Can

    Paint marker and ink on paper, 2023. A hand and a spray can, drawn in graphite, on a field that is anything but.

15. NASA

    Paint marker and ink on paper, 2023. A visor with nothing in it, floating in loops of flat colour.

16. Trap

    Graphite and paint marker on paper, 2022. Dotted-in portraiture on one half, pattern on the other.

17. David

    Graphite and paint marker on paper, 2022. Michelangelo rendered in pencil, dropped into her own foliage.

Enquiries: hello@grethekell.com. More work on Instagram at @grethekellart.