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“Evil Mickey” by Death NYC
Silk-screen print –  edition of 100 + AP – Artist Proof (AP), signed and certified

Framed within the gleaming veneer of pop iconography, Evil Mickey by the elusive street artist Death NYC unfurls as both a subversive provocation and a beguiling allegory. It is an artwork that does not merely depict, it interrogates.

In Evil LV Mickey, the anonymous and enigmatic street artist Death NYC orchestrates a potent visual paradox: the familiar made uncanny, the innocent made subversive. Known for her acerbic wit and razor-sharp cultural critique, Death NYC, whose acronym stands for Don’t Easily Abandon The Hope, has long haunted the threshold between rebellion and refinement, satire and sincerity.

This particular work unveils a distorted visage of Mickey Mouse. Gone is the emblem of childhood delight; in its place, a malevolent grin that nods to Shepard Fairey’s OBEY Giant, with undertones of Orwellian omnipresence. Draped across the figure is the opulent lattice of the Louis Vuitton monogram, a motif as loaded with meaning as it is with market value.

This fusion serves as a critique of consumer culture, blending symbols of innocence and luxury to provoke thought on the commodification of popular icons. In merging corporate branding with corrupted nostalgia, Death NYC exposes the ways in which our cultural archetypes have been bought, sold, and repackaged, rendered hollow through overexposure and excess.

The choice of silk-screen as medium – a process immortalized by Warhol and long associated with mechanical reproduction – becomes part of the commentary itself. It suggests replication not as artifice, but as the central engine of consumer desire. What was once sacred in the cultural imagination is here made suspect.

Evil LV Mickey is not simply a portrait; it is a provocation. A reflection of a world where childhood symbols are co-opted by the market, and where the line between play and power is meticulously, and deliberately, blurred.