The Miami Art Blog by Heike Dempster

What do Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Minnie Mouse and Darth Vader have in common? They are all popular iconic characters that inspire Miami based artist GG. To honor their iconic status, achievements and the influence they have had on his career GG created a new series entitled “Popular Demand” for his latest solo exhibition at Nac Gallery in Fort Lauderdale.

GG is known for his gallery art with an urban edge as well as his signature character “Fedo,” which he created in 2009. “Fedo” has since been immortalized in murals across South Florida and on canvases residing in many a collector’s home around the world. International collectors have indeed been taking notice and GG’s work has become popular to many who enjoy the pop-art inspired paintings.

At 22 GG is still a young artist with a long career ahead of him. His art has started to go through a visible maturation process and he is interested in exploring new ideas, styles, creative processes and narratives. We will see him explore more delicate, fine-tuned themes and emotions and experiment with new details such as text and a more muted color palette, which is a distinct departure from his use of saturated colors, flat painting style and the focus on a central character.

Yet there is no denying the popular demand for the Fedo-ed versions of painters and cartoon characters. GG was willing to oblige and paint his favorite icons. Bob Marley was snagged up before he even took his space on the walls of Nac Gallery and Andy Warhol, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, designer extraordinaire Karl Lagerfeld and Batman have sold before the exhibit even opened its doors to the public.

“Popular Demand” is showing until April 15^th, 2013 at Nac Gallery but in case you cannot make it to the gallery you can check out more of GG’s work and other artists at www.nacgallery.com