Figures (2023) brings together three distinct works on paper—Sex and Drugs, Lou, and Mick—unified and presented as a single framed composition. Spanning 16 × 36 inches overall, the work reads as a fragmented yet cohesive study of cultural iconography, attitude, and identity. Executed across crayon, marker, ink, and watercolor, the drawings retain their individual immediacy while gaining new resonance through their collective presentation.

Referencing vintage fashion graphics, punk ephemera, and music history, the trio moves fluidly between text, portraiture, and symbol. Loose lines, uneven textures, and expressive color blocks evoke nostalgia without imitation—each figure rendered less as a likeness than as an impression, remembered and reassembled. Together, the works function as a visual rhythm: rebellion, persona, and myth unfolding across the surface.

Los Angeles–based artist Vincent Lantzy (b. 1998, Detroit, MI) began his practice through hand-altered garments, a foundation that continues to inform his approach to drawing and painting. His works on paper carry the same raw craftsmanship and intuitive energy, treating cultural memory as material—something worn, marked, and reshaped over time. In Figures, Lantzy collapses fashion, music, and image-making into a single, charged tableau.