Claire Salvo’s O’Keeffe transforms the face of American currency into a quiet desert reverie. Painted in acrylic on a one-dollar bill, the piece pays tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe’s enduring vision of the American Southwest - its sun-bleached skulls, open skies, and resilient flora. Here, Salvo reimagines O’Keeffe’s signature motifs within the confines of the dollar, contrasting the painter’s organic spirituality with the hard geometry of economic value.

The composition centers on a longhorn skull, suspended over a sparse desert horizon where wildflowers bloom defiantly beneath. The gesture evokes both fragility and permanence, echoing O’Keeffe’s fascination with life’s cyclical beauty amid desolation.

In O’Keeffe, Salvo bridges two icons of American identity: the dollar as symbol of power, and O’Keeffe’s art as a symbol of transcendence. The result is a meditation on value - monetary, aesthetic, and emotional - rendered with reverence and restraint.