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Humming Bird Fly by Louis Carreon
- Louis Carreon depicts the hummingbird as a spiritual icon through his use of sacred geometry
- The outstretched bird is framed by a radiant halo and mandala-like motif
- Layered paint and expressive mark-making give the composition the energy of Carreon's graffiti roots
- Carreon's contemporary practice updates religious and shamanic imagery through the visual language of urban culture
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b. 1977 | American
Humming Bird Fly
Signed "Louis Carreon" (lower right)
Mixed media on canvas
Louis Carreon's Humming Bird Fly transforms the delicate hummingbird into a radiant spiritual icon. Shown with its wings fully extended, the bird hovers beneath a blazing golden halo centered by an intricate blue-and-gold mandala-like motif. Carreon's bird imagery draws on the idea of spirit birds as messengers between the earthly and spiritual realms, giving. . .
b. 1977 | American
Humming Bird Fly
Signed "Louis Carreon" (lower right)
Mixed media on canvas
Louis Carreon's Humming Bird Fly transforms the delicate hummingbird into a radiant spiritual icon. Shown with its wings fully extended, the bird hovers beneath a blazing golden halo centered by an intricate blue-and-gold mandala-like motif. Carreon's bird imagery draws on the idea of spirit birds as messengers between the earthly and spiritual realms, giving the hummingbird a deeper symbolic presence. The composition brings together nature, sacred imagery and the immediacy of street art, themes that define Carreon's contemporary practice.
Carreon builds the bird through energetic marks, layered patterning and spray-painted passages. Vibrant greens and yellows flicker across its head and body, while the broad wings dissolve into rapid strokes, drips and bursts of black, pink and gold. Behind the figure, radiating lines and an interlocking geometric lattice give the hummingbird an icon-like presence, while the raw edges and fragments of text preserve the work's graffiti-inflected character. Inscribed across the lower field is “TROCHILIDAE,” the scientific family name for hummingbirds.
Born in California, Carreon began his artistic career in graffiti and street culture before developing a studio practice that places urban mark-making in dialogue with spiritual symbolism. His work draws upon halos, sacred geometry and shamanic imagery, updating traditional religious iconography through a contemporary visual language. In his bird paintings, Carreon explores ideas of transcendence and spiritual connection through nature, making Humming Bird Fly a vivid meditation on movement, energy and the sacred.
Canvas: 48" high x 48" wide (121.92 x 121.92 cm)
Frame: 49 1/2" high x 49 1/2" wide x 2" deep (125.73 x 125.72 x 5.08 cm)
| Maker: | Carreon, Louis |
| Period: | 1919-Present |
| Origin: | America |
| Type: | Paintings |
| Style: | Postmodernism |
| Depth: | 2.0 in. (5.08 cm) |
| Width: | 49.5 in. (125.73 cm) |
| Height: | 49.5 in. (125.73 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 48.000 in. (121.92 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 48.000 in. (121.92 cm) |
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