John Currin: The Red Shoe

The Red Shoe is from a series of black-and-white prints by John Currin produced in collaboration with Kido Press, depicting individuals and smiling couples seemingly unaware of the random assortments of food, birds, and objects balanced on their heads and bodies. Characteristic of the artist’s oeuvre, the work combines the compositional structures typical of old master portraits and Northern European painting with whimsical subject matter.