Tyler Shields Lipstick Smoke For Sale

About this work

Tyler Shields' Lipstick Smoke (2025) is a chromogenic print issued as an edition of 3 and available in four sizes from 18 × 18 to 60 × 60 inches. Among the artist's most recent works, it revisits one of his most consistently developed visual motifs—smoke in conjunction with the symbols of feminine beauty and sensuality—bringing the formal precision and technical mastery of the chromogenic process to a subject that has preoccupied him across multiple decades and series. The lipstick, as an object, carries enormous cultural freight: it is simultaneously a tool of self-adornment and an emblem of desire, a gesture of self-expression and an invitation to attention. Combined with smoke—ephemeral, curling, suggestive of both pleasure and transience—the composition opens a rich field of associations around beauty as performance, glamour as gesture, and the way that ordinary acts of self-presentation are transformed, by the camera, into images of extraordinary power. As a 2025 chromogenic print, Lipstick Smoke represents Shields' continued investment in the technical and expressive possibilities of his medium. The chromogenic process lends the image a warmth and luminosity particularly well-suited to the interplay of red and grey—lipstick and smoke—that defines its visual argument. For collectors, it is an opportunity to acquire one of the artist's newest and most accomplished works at a range of scales suited to any significant private collection. Chromogenic printing—requiring precise chemical processing and exceptional quality control—produces photographs of extraordinary color fidelity and archival permanence, making it the preferred medium of photographers who demand the highest possible standard of image quality.