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Punkmetender What the Gesture Remembers For Sale
Punkmetender
What the Gesture Remembers, 2026
Oil on canvas with handwritten epoxy resin |Signed and Dated
48x48 in.
Edition
1/1
About this work
PUNKMETENDER What the Gesture Remembers, 2026 Punkmetender has emerged as a distinctive voice in contemporary painting, developing a practice that bridges gestural abstraction with material innovation. The artist's work has garnered attention for its investigation of memory, embodiment, and the physical traces left by repeated action, positioning Punkmetender within a generation of painters reconsidering the boundaries between traditional and experimental media. What the Gesture Remembers presents a commanding forty-eight-inch square surface where oil paint and handwritten epoxy resin converge in deliberate tension. The work operates on multiple registers, with passages of fluid brushwork interrupted and preserved beneath translucent resin layers that carry inscribed text. This palimpsest effect creates a visual archaeology, inviting the viewer to excavate meaning from beneath the surface. The composition balances spontaneity with intention, as gestural marks appear frozen mid-motion while the embedded writing suggests private notation or half-remembered language. Light interacts with the resin passages to shift the work's appearance depending on viewing angle, introducing a temporal dimension to what might otherwise read as a static image. The scale encourages sustained engagement, rewarding close examination of surface detail while maintaining coherence from a distance. This work is offered as a unique piece, signed and dated by the artist, representing a singular opportunity to acquire a significant example from this evolving body of work. For acquisition enquiries regarding What the Gesture Remembers or other works by Punkmetender, please contact Guy Hepner directly to arrange a private viewing or discuss availability.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2026
- Medium
- Oil on canvas with handwritten epoxy resin |Signed and Dated
- Edition
- 1/1
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About Punkmetender
Roman Lefebvre is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Born in Paris and shaped by nearly two decades in Los Angeles, Lefebvre played an integral role in developing the visual identity, design language and studio practice of Mr. Brainwash during the formative years of his international career. He is featured in the Academy Award- nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and worked alongside Banksy and other influential figures of the international street-art movement.
Under the name Punkmetender, Lefebvre subsequently established an independent international practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation and large-scale public work. His works are held in prominent private collections internationally, including those of a member of the Getty family, Mariah Carey, Khloé Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Dave Navarro, among others.
Now working under his own name, Lefebvre is expanding his practice through digital film and Membrane, a materially layered series examining perception, memory and the unstable boundary between image and reality. Moving between contemporary digital figures and historical imagery transformed through oil painting, abrasion, handwritten language and transparent epoxy resin, his work explores how beauty is preserved, disrupted and reinterpreted across time.
Available through Guy Hepner in New York.