Jojo Anavim Win For Life For Sale

About this work

Jojo Anavim is a New York-based artist whose mixed-media paintings navigate the intersection of popular culture, desire, chance, and the seductions of consumer promise. Working with acrylic, solvent transfer, and metallic foil on canvas, Anavim creates surfaces of layered visual complexity that combine the imagery of mass culture with the materiality and intimacy of studio painting, generating works that are simultaneously celebratory and critically alert. Win For Life (2026) is an acrylic, solvent transfer and foil on canvas measuring 36 × 36 inches (91.44 × 91.44 cm). The title — borrowed from the language of lottery marketing — invokes the fantasy of permanent, effortless abundance: the dream of a life freed from economic constraint, where every future is open and every desire achievable. Anavim engages this cultural mythology with both affection and irony, his layered surface technique incorporating imagery from consumer and popular culture through solvent transfer — a process in which printed images are transferred to the canvas using solvents, their partial dissolution becoming an expressive element in the final work. The addition of metallic foil to acrylic and transferred imagery creates a surface of tactile and visual richness characteristic of Anavim's practice: the foil catches light and creates areas of brilliance that shift with viewing angle, giving the work an almost theatrical quality appropriate to the aspirational culture it engages. Win For Life is a painting that wears its subject matter with wit and energy while engaging it with the full resources of a serious studio practice — a work of layered meaning delivered with considerable surface glamour.