Untitled, Whole Lotta

Created in 2020, Cory Van Lew’s Untitled, Whole Lotta offset lithograph embodies the artist’s vivid, color‑driven approach to contemporary portraiture and urban visual culture. Printed in colors on wove paper at 11" × 8.5", the work compresses Van Lew’s exploration of identity, spirituality, and emotional presence into a compact sheet that feels equally at home in fine‑art and street‑influenced contexts. As part of a broader practice that includes paintings, digital works, and editions, the piece demonstrates how Van Lew leverages printmaking to extend the reach of his imagery while maintaining the intensity of his mark‑making and palette choices. Signed and dated in pencil on the verso, the lithograph traces a line from grassroots production to the institutional spaces where his work now appears, including galleries and auctions. Within the Urban / Contemporary section of The Askia Jones Collection, Untitled, Whole Lotta amplifies the archive’s focus on Black contemporary artists who reinterpret portraiture and symbolism for the twenty‑first century, bridging your historical holdings in comics, animation, and music ephemera with the current generation’s visual language.