Golf Course: Playful Critique of Leisure and Power

Medium: Mixed Media on Wood
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Pop Art

Golf Course (2025) is part of my Pop Art Collection, a body of work where I use bold color, irony, and graphic forms to explore the cultural rituals of leisure, luxury, and spectacle. Painted in acrylic on canvas, this 48 x 48 inch work combines flat, vibrant greens with hyper-stylized forms, evoking the pristine yet artificial world of manicured landscapes.

The painting is intentionally playful, its clean lines and candy-colored palette referencing the aesthetics of vintage travel posters and advertising. Yet beneath the cheerful facade, Golf Course offers a subtle critique of the exclusivity and environmental contradictions embedded in spaces of leisure.

In spirit, this work resonates with the legacy of Andy Warhol, whose Pop Art works turned everyday consumer culture into icons while simultaneously questioning the emptiness behind the sheen. Like Warhol, I use repetition, flatness, and surface seduction as a strategy — inviting the viewer into a world that is both familiar and unsettling.

But where Warhol’s subjects often remain emotionally detached, Golf Course leans into satire, offering a more overt wink at the absurdity of manicured privilege. The painting toys with the tension between pleasure and critique, spectacle and subversion.

As part of the Pop Art Collection, Golf Course is a celebration of surface as much as it is an interrogation of it — asking what lies beneath the perfect greens, the polished symbols, and the rituals of curated leisure.