A vibrant, multi‑layered photo‑sculpture that channels the bold graphic energy central to Cey Adams’ artistic legacy. Rose builds a dimensional grid of stacked panels, each carrying bursts of saturated color, yellows, reds, blacks, and oranges, that echo Adams’ roots in graffiti, hip‑hop visual culture, and pop‑infused abstraction.
At the center, Adams’ portrait emerges with warmth and ease, his expression grounding the surrounding intensity.
The sculptural layering pushes and pulls the surface, creating a rhythmic interplay between photographic realism and geometric fragmentation.
The result feels both architectural and expressive, as if Adams’ visual language is expanding outward from the portrait itself.
Rose’s collaboration transforms Adams into both subject and structure, allowing his history, humor, and graphic sensibility to become the material from which the artwork is built.
48 x 44 x 8 inches