RETNA (American, b. 1979)
Convert to the Draggon Queens, 2025
Mixed media on canvas
84 x 60 inches (213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Signed, titled, and inscribed verso
Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity from CORE Art Gallery, Los Angeles
A monumental and architecturally scaled mixed-media composition by RETNA, Convert to the Draggon Queen‘s exemplifies the artist’s instantly recognizable synthesis of calligraphy, abstraction, and urban mark-making. Layering his signature symbolic script across an energetic field of fragmented color, RETNA creates a visual language that operates simultaneously as text, pattern, and gesture.
Unlike the stark monochromatic palettes often associated with the artist’s earlier work, this composition incorporates softer tonal passages and atmospheric color relationships, lending the canvas a more painterly and meditative quality while maintaining the rhythmic intensity central to RETNA’s practice. The result is a work that bridges contemporary abstraction and street-based visual culture with unusual sophistication and scale.
RETNA rose to international prominence through large-scale mural interventions, collaborations with fashion and music figures, and exhibitions spanning Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Hong Kong, and beyond. His work draws influence from Gothic script, Arabic calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and illuminated manuscripts, forming a distinct visual vocabulary that has become one of the most immediately identifiable artistic languages of the 21st century.
At 84 x 60 inches, this work possesses the physical presence and immersive quality collectors increasingly seek in RETNA’s strongest canvases. Fresh to market and acquired directly through CORE Art Gallery in Los Angeles earlier this year, the painting is offered in excellent condition.
Price upon request.
