Pop Portrait With Braids Looped Into Shapes

Bold contemporary pop art with a gallery-art finish: crisp graphic shapes, flattened color fields of saturated crimson, cobalt blue, warm yellow and deep black, intricate geometric patterns and digitally built textures stacked on top, the pattern lines warping ever so slightly into the surreal. At the center, a front-on portrait of a gorgeous African American woman with long, sculptural dreadlocks, calm and confident, eyes locked on the viewer. Her locks arc in strong rhythmic curves around the face and shoulders and double as graphic elements of the layout. Elegant features, luminous rich brown skin, dramatic contrast, razor-precise edges, sophisticated editorial energy, and a background that is visually dense yet controlled.