Artwork Description
Pop Sub Final #2 Limited Edition 4-Color Hand-Pulled Silkscreen Print on Fine Art Paper by John Baizley Graffiti Street Artist Modern Pop Art.
2014 Numbered Limited Edition of 100 Artwork Size 12x12
Pop Sub Final #2 by John Baizley: A Vivid Collision of Decay and Desire
Pop Sub Final #2 is a hand-pulled silkscreen print created by American artist John Baizley and released in 2014 as part of a numbered limited edition of 100. Measuring 12x12 inches and executed in four striking colors, the artwork combines the aesthetics of horror, iconography, and surrealism with the visual punch of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork. The central image is a fusion of a bright violet apple and a human skull, masterfully rendered with intricate linework and surreal anatomical blending. Floating against a golden yellow background, the apple-skull hybrid pulses with visual tension—temptation and mortality locked in a single symbolic form. The work is immediately engaging and powerfully disturbing, pushing pop symbolism into darker terrain without sacrificing design clarity or impact.
John Baizley: Musician and Street Pop Visionary
John Baizley is a multidisciplinary creative based in the United States, widely recognized as the frontman and visual artist for the band Baroness. His contributions to the visual arts often explore themes of life, death, beauty, and corruption, all channeled through a precise illustrative style. Baizley’s artworks consistently merge symbolic storytelling with gothic sensibilities, positioning him uniquely in the Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork movement. His pieces feel both ancient and modern—referencing religious iconography, botanical studies, and comic book panels—while embracing the raw, bold aesthetics of silkscreen street prints. Pop Sub Final #2 is a clear extension of his visual ethos: detailed, emotionally evocative, and unafraid of confronting the darker truths hidden beneath seductive imagery.
The Apple and Skull: A Pop Street Paradox
This print centers on a singular image—a fruit with a skull embedded within its flesh. The apple’s familiar shape recalls cultural references to temptation, sin, and forbidden knowledge, while the embedded skull disrupts that familiarity with a message of inevitability and rot. The surreal juxtaposition evokes themes of consumption and consequence, presented with enough vibrancy to seduce before shocking. In the context of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, this visual strategy is essential. It lures with surface aesthetics but delivers substance through contradiction and discomfort. The use of bold pinks and golds, as well as the high-contrast rendering style, makes the image feel like it belongs on a wall, a poster, or a protest—alive in public, not locked in a gallery.
Limited Print as Cultural Emblem
Produced in a strictly limited edition of 100, Pop Sub Final #2 reinforces the handmade authenticity that defines effective street pop art. Each 12x12 print was screenprinted by hand, giving the work a tactile, material presence that mirrors the grit and immediacy of its subject. Unlike digital reproductions, this piece carries the imperfections and textures of the printing process, reinforcing the physicality of the art form. Baizley’s contribution to the Pop Sub series is not just an exercise in visual storytelling, but a testament to the role of contemporary printmakers in pushing graffiti and street aesthetics into layered, fine-art territories. This piece reminds the viewer that street pop can be both seductive and scathing, decorative and deadly.
