Elmo Hood There Will Be Peace On Earth For Sale
Elmo Hood
There Will Be Peace On Earth, 2026
Mixed Media Playing Card on Wooden Backed Canvas | Signed
12 x 16 In
About this work
Elmo Wood has emerged as a distinctive voice in contemporary mixed media practice, gaining recognition for works that merge found objects with painted surfaces to create layered commentaries on chance, fate, and collective human longing. His approach transforms everyday ephemera into vehicles for broader philosophical inquiry, positioning him within a lineage of artists who find profound meaning in the overlooked and discarded. There Will Be Peace On Earth exemplifies Wood's signature technique of incorporating playing cards as both material and metaphor. The card, mounted on wooden backed canvas, becomes a surface upon which aspirations and anxieties converge. The title speaks to a universal yearning while the medium itself—a gaming artifact associated with luck, strategy, and uncertainty—introduces productive tension between hope and the randomness that governs human affairs. This interplay between optimistic declaration and the inherent unpredictability suggested by the playing card gives the work its conceptual weight. This signed original represents an opportunity to acquire a work that encapsulates Wood's thematic preoccupations and material sensibility. For acquisition inquiries or additional information regarding this piece, please contact Guy Hepner directly.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2026
- Medium
- Mixed Media Playing Card on Wooden Backed Canvas | Signed
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About the Playing Cards Series
Elmo Hood's Playing Cards series is where his signature process began, and it remains the most collected body of work in his practice. Each piece starts with a found playing card, its printed color and imagery repurposed rather than covered, then built out with layered mixed media and mounted on wooden backed canvas.
The cards themselves carry the compositions. Kings and queens recur throughout, their existing linework absorbed into new characters and scenes. Hood works dark tones into the shading and outlines of each piece, giving the finished work a graphic, almost stencil-like edge that sits somewhere between pop art and street art.
The titles are part of the work. Lines like In The War Of Ego The Loser Always Wins and What Doesn't Kill Me read like aphorisms, pulling the series toward the same undercurrent of philosophy and self-examination that runs through Hood's practice more broadly. A recurring New York thread, seen in pieces like New York Is A Verb and New York Punches, reflects the city's pull on the artist and its recurring presence across this body of work.
Guy Hepner Gallery presents 15 works from the Playing Cards series, available through private sale. Each piece is signed by the artist. Complimentary valuations and current pricing are available on enquiry.
About Elmo Hood
Elmo Hood is a self-taught contemporary artist working at the intersection of pop art and mixed media. Born in 1989 in Southampton, England, he now lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.
Hood's career began in 2013 with a single collage made from two playing cards. The piece went viral, leading to a string of international exhibitions and a growing collector base that has followed his work ever since. Those early card pieces set the template for what would become his signature process: cutting, burning, and reassembling found materials to build emotionally charged compositions.
Today his work fuses pop art sensibility with layered mixed media technique. Playing cards remain central to his practice, their existing color and imagery repurposed into new palettes, while darker tones anchor the outlines and shading of each piece. Kings and queens recur throughout his output, alongside recurring nods to philosophy, religion, and the paranormal, giving the work a mythic, symbol-driven undercurrent beneath its pop surface.
Hood's work has been featured in British GQ, Forbes, Glamour, Wall Street International, and Made in Shoreditch, among other publications. He has exhibited across London, Paris, New York, Miami, Ibiza, Bahrain, and Munich, with pieces auctioned at the Houses of Parliament. His exhibition history includes solo shows such as Down the Rabbit Hole at Westbank Gallery, London, and House of Cards in Miami, alongside group exhibitions in New York and at the Bahrain Art Fair.