Superheros Scarf by Katherine Bradford

This beautiful limited-edition, silk scarf by Ann Craven is based off her painting Portrait of Two Birds (After Picabia). It comes in a custom box for easy gifting or decorate your wall (or body!) with the eye-catching image. 

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Ann Craven is known for her vibrant, lush, paintings that emerge from a desire to savor “the prospect of the infinite over the sanctity of the original.” Her work is bold and often depicts natural elements like birds, flowers, and trees. Craven sometimes pulls images from books and the Internet, but often works from life in her studio in Maine. Craven has exhibited at institutions including Sculpture Center, New York, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art and many more. 

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Produced by the artist and Massif Central.

This limited-edition silk twill scarf by Ed Ruscha, produced by Massif Central, was released by (RED) and Gagosian. Sales directly benefit (RED), where the net proceeds raised will support the fight for equitable access to COVID relief in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Doubling the impact, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will generously match every dollar raised for the Global Fund.

In 1986, Ruscha made the original drawing on which the scarf is based, inspired by a phrase he saw inscribed in stone above the entrance to the science block of Los Angeles’s storied Hollywood High School. In the current global political climate, where suspicion and demonization of science and medicine have been widespread, this prescient image has gained new resonance and topicality. In the processes of revelation in the often circuitous path toward truth, science and scientific thinking intersect with art—probing and searching intellectually and philosophically while seeking material consequences and outcomes. Like the most elegant of scientific theories, Ruscha’s images and idioms are at once irreducibly straightforward and heroically expansive.

This silk and cotton blend scarf features a series of playing cards against a crisp blue background, complemented by a hand-drawn logo and signature by the artist. Each scarf comes packaged in an enamel-printed box.

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Jonas Wood is represented by David Kordansky Gallery and Gagosian. He has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum Voorlinden, the Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka), Lever House, New York and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Phaidon published the first monograph dedicated to Wood’s paintings and drawings. 

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Produced in an edition of 100, this scarf is Massif Central's fifth collaboration with the artist.

This limited edition silk twill scarf features Kehinde Wiley’s painting, Two Heroic Sisters of the Grassland, 2011.  Titled after the Chinese parable about two Mongolian sisters who almost sacrifice their lives to protect their flock of sheep, the piece depicts two subjects, possibly brothers, who stand side by side with their arms in a salute. Based around a story which explores themes of dedication and perseverance, this piece demonstrates the power of unity over division and the importance of the black community to engage in harmony, especially in the face of adversity. This scarf also features a patterned background of navy blue chrysanthemums attached to graceful vines, and is presented in a monogrammed rigid box, wrapped in branded tissue paper.

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Proceeds from your purchase support the artist in residence program Black Rock Sénégal, founded by Wiley in 2019.