Voodoo Icon

🎨 Artwork Information Sheet

Title of the Work: Voodoo Icon
Artist: Fair Fab (signed in the bottom right)
Medium: Digital collage, graffiti-style typography, mixed media
Dimensions: Not specified (digital image)
Date: Contemporary
Location: Conceptual space—homage to Jimi Hendrix’s cultural and sonic legacy

Description of the Artwork

Voodoo Icon is a blazing tribute to the myth and magnitude of Jimi Hendrix. The composition fuses psychedelic color palettes, textured overlays, graffiti typography, and layered portraiture to evoke Hendrix’s status as both musical innovator and cultural icon. On the left, his face emerges in ghostly monochrome behind a technicolor guitar. On the right, a vibrant full-body portrait of Hendrix is dressed in his signature embroidered jacket, engulfed by warm oranges and reds that radiate energy.

Scrawled across the artwork are titles of Hendrix’s legendary songs—Purple Haze, Voodoo Child, All Along the Watchtower, The Wind Cries Mary—as though they are etched into the very fabric of rock history. The use of hand-drawn script adds a visceral, improvised rhythm—mirroring Hendrix’s uncontainable guitar style.

The word "ICONIQUE" (iconic) appears boldly across the center, visually and thematically anchoring the piece.

Artistic Influences

• Psychedelic rock poster art from the 1960s (Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso)

• Urban street art and graffiti (e.g., RETNA’s calligraphic textures)

• Pop art and visual sampling à la Robert Rauschenberg

• Hendrix’s own aesthetic: flamboyant, revolutionary, experimental

Curator’s Note

"Fair Fab’s 'Voodoo Icon' doesn’t merely depict Hendrix—it channels him. The painting erupts like a guitar solo: layered, distorted, ecstatic. Hendrix’s legacy is not only musical but also visual, and here, his psychedelic soul is remixed through street art, digital layering, and cultural memory. It's not a static portrait—it's a visual riff, vibrating with the same chaos and genius Hendrix poured into every note."