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Sage Barnes Floral Original #2 For Sale
Sage Barnes
Floral Original #2, 2022
Acrylic and aerosol on canvas
30 x 40 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Edition
Unique
About this work
*Floral Original #2* (2022) is a acrylic and aerosol on canvas by Sage Barnes, measuring 30 x 40 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm. Unique. This work is part of Sage Barnes's Bloom Paintings series — his signature body of work, in which figures are embedded in dense botanical environments in compositions that combine technical precision with visual richness. The Bloom Paintings are his most collected and commercially active works. Sage Barnes (b. 1995, Missouri) is an American painter working in Los Angeles, represented by Guy Hepner gallery in New York. His large-scale figurative paintings and hand-embellished works on paper have attracted serious collector attention nationally and internationally. Guy Hepner represents Sage Barnes from our New York gallery. Contact us for pricing, availability, and condition reports.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- Acrylic and aerosol on canvas
- Edition
- Unique
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About the Bloom Paintings Series
Bloom Paintings | Sage Barnes | Guy Hepner, New York
About the Series
The Bloom Paintings are Sage Barnes's signature works and the body of practice that has attracted the most serious collector attention. These large-scale figurative paintings place female figures within dense, richly developed botanical environments — flowers, leaves, and organic forms that grow around, through, and with the figure, creating compositions of extraordinary visual complexity that reward sustained attention.
Barnes works in oil on canvas, building surfaces through multiple layers of paint that create depth without losing the freshness of the mark. His figures are rendered with a technical precision unusual for an artist of his generation — the faces, hands, and forms observed with patience and care — while the surrounding botanical elements are handled with a more painterly freedom that creates productive tension within each composition.
The Bloom Paintings sit within a long tradition of figure-and-nature painting while feeling entirely contemporary in their visual language. Barnes draws on fashion photography, illustration, and graphic design as freely as he draws on the history of painting — the result is work that is formally serious without being academic, accessible without being decorative.
Collecting Bloom Paintings
Bloom Paintings are priced in the range of $5,000–$15,000 depending on scale and complexity. As Barnes's reputation grows, these works represent significant investment potential for early collectors. Guy Hepner maintains access to available works and can advise on specific pieces. Contact our New York gallery for current availability.
About Sage Barnes
Sage Barnes is a self-taught American artist working from his studio, known as "the lab," in Kansas. He studied for a time at FIDM in Los Angeles before leaving to pursue art full time, first gaining recognition in 2016 for a series of urban style paintings featuring suited male figures.
Barnes combines abstract, realistic, and street art techniques, often within the same piece, using acrylic and spray paint alongside non-traditional materials such as neon, stucco, and concrete. His figurative portraits are especially distinctive, frequently obscuring the head with bursts of color, smiley faces, floral arrangements, or splattered paint, shifting attention away from identity and toward gesture and emotion. His process is physical and often destructive by design, incorporating action painting and, at times, breaking into finished surfaces with tools to reveal new forms underneath.
His work explores universal experiences of identity, introspection, and everyday behavior, often approached with a dry, tongue in cheek sense of humor beneath the visual intensity. Barnes continues to push the material boundaries of painting, treating each new body of work as an opportunity to expand his technique.
His work is held in private collections throughout North America and internationally, and he has held multiple solo exhibitions, including several with Guy Hepner in New York.
Guy Hepner works with collectors seeking Sage Barnes's bold, physical paintings blending realism, abstraction, and street art. Contact us to discuss available inventory or to inquire about upcoming releases.