Description
La Reina de las Mujeres Chicas [The Queen of the Petite Women] (2016)
8.5 in. x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Graphite and wax on paper
La Reina de las Mujeres Chicas (The Queen of the Petite Women) is a work on paper by California prison artist C-Note, the world’s most prolific prison artist.
The work features a graphite drawing of a young cigar smoking Mexican woman who’s wearing a belt with bullets. The green ocean, red clouds, and white sky rendered with wax is an homage to the flag of Mexico and its people.
“I really admire the work of the imprisoned Chicano artist,” says C-Note. “So when I saw this pattern amongst other patterns from an imprisoned Chicano artist, I wanted to trace it for my own personal use. I could put a spin to it.”
Prison art, especially amongst Hispanic prisoners, use a kind of stencil. It is from these stencils or patterns that they trace onto a surface before shading, predominantly through the use of a single black ballpoint ink pen.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Donald “C-Note” Hooker is a poet, playwright, performing artist, award winning visual artist, and is known as the King of Prison Hip Hop. His works have either been exhibited, performed, recited, or sold, from Alcatraz to Berlin.
In addition, his works have changed lives, saved lives, raised millions of dollars, made history in the fashion world, featured on a mural in Denver’s Art District in 2021, and is the first prison artist to have his art work displayed on two billboards in 2021 and 2022, in Silicon Valley, the tech capital of the world.
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