Rum Punch

Lou Haney
$40.00
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Add Custom Frame

Frames ship to U.S. addresses only. Framed prints ship in 2–4 weeks and are final sale. Full framing details

Add Custom Frame

Frames ship to U.S. addresses only. Framed prints ship in 2–4 weeks and are final sale. Full framing details

Add Custom Frame

Frames ship to U.S. addresses only. Framed prints ship in 2–4 weeks and are final sale. Full framing details

Add Custom Frame

Frames ship to U.S. addresses only. Framed prints ship in 2–4 weeks and are final sale. Full framing details
Artist Statement

Rum Punch is a mixed media piece. The floral is based on found 70’s wallpaper which I redesigned as a black and white fabric. The custom made fabric is then stretched to a panel and I used acrylic spray paint to create the gradient. The tropical drink is collaged onto the background. It is painted with acrylic on mylar to complete the composition. This piece plays with scale (Can you imagine a 2 foot tall cocktail?!?) I am also exploring in this piece how color can create a mood or a vibe.

Why We Love It

Rum Punch is Kodachrome-vibrant. Haney's bold usage of vibrant palettes amplifies the potency of her interior and exterior scenes, as well as still life compositions like this one. She is a powerful conjurer of escapist, time-traveling moments, often placing the viewer in environments that look like the Mary Tyler Moore Show's most fabulous sets. Her work prompts direct conversation with objects, evoking visceral memories for those who lived through their usages the first time around. Whether she’s depicting retro daisy cakes, rotary phones, sun-soaked and chrome-legged patio chairs or this larger than life cocktail, the viewer’s desire to jump into the frame and be one with the scene is visceral. Can’t you feel the cool glass in your hand, taste the zesty orange, and hear the clinking ice?

Haney’s aesthetic is informed by the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the mid-1970s to early 1980s, an American school of art that developed to counter Modernism’s overwhelmingly male and Western perspective. While non-Western fine art cultures embraced decorative work, patterned work, and art with applications in the domestic sphere, Modernism certainly did not. Why was a graphic flower screen-printed by Warhol fine art, but a pattern of graphic flowers screen-printed by a woman wallpaper? What about the graphic work lauded in ancient Greece, sacred Islamic art, Japanese woodblock work, or Turkish weavings? Just as the Pattern and Decoration movement progressively blurred the lines of what was and wasn’t accepted, Haney blurs the lines between what is and isn’t fantasy. I think we can all drink to that.

Details

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Medium

Inkpress Duo Matte

10"x8" | Edition of 10
14"x11" | Edition of 150
20"x16" | Edition of 50
30"x24" | Edition of 10
40"x30" | Edition of 5
Artist - Lou Haney

Lou Haney

Lou Haney creates paintings of domestic spaces that employ nostalgia as a means of temporary escape from the corrupt and chaotic realities of present day life. Using oil, acrylic, fiber art, and mixed media, she explores themes of memory, yearning, and femininity to evoke tension between fantasy and reality. Inspired by the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the mid-1970s to early 1980s, Haney’s work incorporates floral imagery, pattern, and decoration, dismantling the hierarchy of fine art over craft and blurring the line between art and design.

Born in Decatur, Alabama, Haney received her Bachelor of Arts in Art with a Studio Concentration, cum laude from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and her MFA in Painting from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Haney has attended MacDowell as well as the Vermont Studio Center. In 2022, she was a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. Haney was the recipient of the Mississippi Art Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in California, Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky and in over 70 juried group exhibitions. Haney’s work was shown at the Spring/Break Art Fair in New York City in 2022 and 2023. Her work was displayed in solo exhibitions in 2024 at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA and Spectrum Fine Arts in Seattle, WA. She was a finalist for the 2024 Bethesda Painting Prize.

Haney currently teaches Studio Art and Art History at Piedmont Virginia Community College, Sweet Briar College, and Buford Middle School. Haney lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.