Winston Smith Signed #'d w/COA " God Told Me to Skin You Alive" Framed

Description: "Master collage artist Winston Smith snips glorious and terrible tree flesh from the magazines of our mind and pastes it. A mind is a terrible thing to paste. And Glorious!" --Wavy Gravy. "Collage is artistic monkey business which is quietly threating to become a fad. If it succeeds in this it will be, like Dadaism, another harmless little hoax perpetrated upon the art-loving public" --Life Magazine, 1943. "We live in a hi-tech robber-baron era as toxic and vicious as the rise of the industrial revolution ... The relentless bombardment of tabloid anti-news and advertsising overkill numbs and isolates us from each other and our own humanity. We are told we are not a community, but a marketplace ... Is plucking someone else's creation from its original context ... a legitimate way to communicate? In an age where it gets harder to tell where the cartoon ends and real life begins, the answer is a billboard size YES" -- Jello Biafra (from the Foreward). "Winston Smith's use of pop magzine images keeps in sharp focus the ever encroaching apocalyptic nightmare" -- S. Clay Wilson. One of the legendary original OG's of collage-propaganda art, Winston Smith is master. If you aren't familiar with his works, you may have seen this work before on Green Day's Insomniac album, as he too is a Bay Area native. This piece is titled "God Told Me to Skin You Alive". This Edition I bought several years ago from him directly. This is NOT the re-released "Insomniac Version" that comes with the typed title of the album on the print. Framed in a golden toned frame, the entire piece measures approximately 22" x 22" . It is signed in pencil and numbered, and comes with the corresponding COA. The print and frame are in great shape without any significant damage. Please see photos for a more comprehensive look at this piece's current condition. Please ask any questions prior to bidding. Buyer to pay $40 s/h with UPS Ground. I will refund back to your account any overage in shipping that exceeds $5. I cannot know the exact cost of shipping until it is boxed and weighed with your exact address. USA Sales only please. Thank you!

Price: 245 USD

Location: Santa Rosa, California

End Time: 2025-01-06T16:49:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 40 USD