Piedmont Graphics NC 3 Serigraph 1984

This screenprint comes to us courtesy of Patrick Nagel. It's all sleek lines, cool detachment, and a palette pulled straight from a neon-lit 80s daydream. I can only imagine Nagel in his studio, meticulously layering each color, trying to get that precise, airbrushed perfection. I bet he was listening to some synth-pop, lost in the zone, chasing that elusive ideal of feminine mystique. There's something so controlled, so deliberate about the way he's smoothed out every detail. Look at the way he's used those blocks of color to define her features, so minimal and yet so evocative. And those eyes—they're like lasers, cutting right through you. In a way, it reminds me of Alex Katz, but with a harder, more commercial edge. Nagel captures something about that era, a moment when art, fashion, and advertising all blurred together, creating this hyper-stylized vision of beauty. And it's still resonating with us, all these years later, a testament to the ongoing dialogue between artists and the ever-evolving language of visual culture.