My Name Is JIMMY

🎨 Artwork Information Sheet

Title of the Work: My Name Is JIMMY
Artist: Fair Fab (signature and logo in bottom right)
Medium: Digital collage, expressive graffiti typography, mixed media layering
Date: Contemporary

Description of the Artwork

This piece, My Name Is JIMMY, is a raw, emotional homage to Jimi Hendrix, blending expressive portraiture, saturated color fields, and calligraphic typography. Two mirrored images of Hendrix face each other across the canvas—one vibrant and full of energy, the other distorted and consumed in fiery tones—suggesting both his duality and immortality.

The dominant handwritten phrase, “My Name is Jimmy”, scrawled boldly across the image, asserts identity as both introduction and legend—referencing Hendrix’s lyrical line “I’m a voodoo child, lord knows I’m a voodoo child.” The script bleeds into other elements like “Voodoo Child,” “BAMBA,” and cryptic phrases, creating a sensory overload that echoes the improvisational chaos of Hendrix’s guitar solos.

The contrast between vibrant textures, psychedelic fabrics, and distressed overlays reflects Hendrix's journey through beauty, rebellion, mysticism, and self-destruction.

Artistic Influences

• Psychedelia and rock iconography from the late 1960s

• Jean-Michel Basquiat: for cryptic handwriting, identity-assertive motifs, and raw emotion

• Urban calligraphy art (similar to RETNA or José Parlá)

• Hendrix’s own aesthetic and mysticism, stylized through fashion and sound

Curator’s Note

"In ‘My Name Is JIMMY,’ Fair Fab channels not only the persona of Hendrix but his existential scream—an artist both seen and spectral. This is not a tribute in the traditional sense; it’s a confrontation. The swirling, hand-drawn letters function like a guitar riff—flawed, fluid, furious. The dual image of Hendrix reflects a man who was both flesh and fire, and whose legacy still burns across music, fashion, and art.”