“Jonny Negron’s paintings bulge with hyper-erotic energy,” reads our feature on the Los Angeles-based artist in Elephant Issue 39. His stylized, sci-fi and comic-book-inspired works have seen him heralded as a “queer R Crumb of sorts”, and are are “drenched in pop-culture references”. In this striking work, comically titledYSL Poppers, a “blue-haired boy in a leather jacket snorts from a small bottle, with an Yves Saint Laurent padlock and chain around his neck”—one of many of Negron’s apt encapsulations of the “aspirations and loneliness of youth”. Purchase the archive issue at Elephant Kiosk to find out more.
