LADYBOY
“WALLSPIRIT Guide”, 2008
contractor’s tape, spray mount
Ladyboy is a graphic artist and designer who incorporates psychedelic, technological, and pop culture imagery into visually-explosive murals, paintings, and clothing designs. His trademark style and designs are known throughout the city. Here the artist has created a “wall drawing” made from fluorescent tape in various colors whose geometric form, suggesting overlapping diamonds or arrows, extends from the ceiling down the wall. The flat image causes the viewer’s eye to traverse the interstitial spaces of the gallery and, as it begins at the point where the wall touches the ceiling, suggesting that perhaps something unknown is emerging from the crevices of the wall.
