
Membrane
9 works

220, 2022
Acrylic on stretched canvas, gold mirrored butterflies
48 x 60 in 121.9 x 152.4 cm
**220** commands attention through its dynamic interplay of centrifugal color fields and reflective sculptural elements across its substantial 48 x 60 inch canvas. The spinning technique creates radiating bands of acrylic paint that seem to pulse outward from multiple centers, generating a sense of perpetual motion frozen in time. Gold mirrored butterflies are embedded within the paint surface, their reflective surfaces catching and fracturing light as they appear to navigate the swirling currents of color. The butterflies function as both interruption and harmony, their delicate forms creating points of stillness within the energetic vortex of the composition. Within Punkmetender's evolving practice, **220** represents a sophisticated balance between the artist's signature spinning methodology and sculptural integration. The work demonstrates how the embedded butterfly elements can serve as compositional anchors while enhancing rather than competing with the kinetic energy of the spin-painted surface. This piece exemplifies the artist's mastery of scale, using the generous canvas dimensions to create an immersive environment where viewers experience both the macro rhythm of the spinning technique and the intimate detail of individual sculptural elements. **220** stands as a compelling example of how Punkmetender transforms the mechanical process of spinning into a meditation on movement, light, and transformation.
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Punkmetender's "Spin Paintings" series employs centrifugal force to distribute acrylic paint across canvas and panel surfaces, creating dynamic radiating compositions where color flows outward from central points. This mechanical painting process generates fluid, organic patterns as pigments blend and separate according to their weight and viscosity, resulting in works that capture motion and energy in permanent form.
The artist incorporates sculptural elements directly into the wet paint surface during the spinning process, embedding aluminum butterflies, gold mirrored aluminum butterflies, aluminum flowers, diamond dust, and LED neon components that become integral to the painted composition. These materials interact with the centrifugal motion, creating unique positioning and paint accumulation patterns around each embedded object, while reflective elements like the mirrored butterflies and diamond dust introduce shifting light effects that activate the surface.
The series spans works created between 2020 and 2024, ranging from 46 to 84 inches in scale across both circular and rectangular formats. Executed on stretched canvas, wooden panel, and aluminum panel supports, these large-format works demonstrate consistent exploration of the centrifugal painting technique while varying in their specific material combinations and sculptural interventions.

Roman Lefebvre is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Born in Paris and shaped by nearly two decades in Los Angeles, Lefebvre played an integral role in developing the visual identity, design language and studio practice of Mr. Brainwash during the formative years of his international career. He is featured in the Academy Award- nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and worked alongside Banksy and other influential figures of the international street-art movement.
Under the name Punkmetender, Lefebvre subsequently established an independent international practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation and large-scale public work. His works are held in prominent private collections internationally, including those of a member of the Getty family, Mariah Carey, Khloé Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Dave Navarro, among others.
Now working under his own name, Lefebvre is expanding his practice through digital film and Membrane, a materially layered series examining perception, memory and the unstable boundary between image and reality. Moving between contemporary digital figures and historical imagery transformed through oil painting, abrasion, handwritten language and transparent epoxy resin, his work explores how beauty is preserved, disrupted and reinterpreted across time.
Available through Guy Hepner in New York.