24” x 20” x 2.25”
Original Painting
Oil on Canvas
SOLD (to a collector in Dallas, Texas)
To distinguish one Millennial Falcon from another, I decided each painting in the series would have its own name. I researched the most popular millennial baby names, and this first painting is titled Michael—the number one millennial name.
The Millennial Falcon series came about in a moment of unexpected inspiration while I was driving past a scrap metal yard along the highway. Among the piles of metal sat a large sculpture of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. As the name rolled through my head, it landed incorrectly but perfectly as “millennial” instead of “millennium.”
From that small mental slip, the series was born. The Millennial Falcon merges a falcon’s head with fashions and visual cues associated with millennial culture, creating portraits that are both humorous and oddly familiar. By pairing pop-culture references with generational identity, the work plays with nostalgia, language, and the ways we label ourselves.