Meet Geoffrey Stein the brain behind the series, “The Kings and Queens of Late Night”. The series features painted collage portraits of an all-star cast of network and cable comics as well as pundits. Included in the Late Night series are familiar faces like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, Amy Schumer, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and many more.
His collage work began back in the ’90s thanks to his background in rigorous life drawing. In 2009, Stein began to draw a series “Irrational Exuberance” of portraits of characters involved in the credit crunch. In his latest series, he continues to use collage materials on a framework of drawing and explores the relations between pop culture, abstraction and portraiture.
Stein uses collage as a formal element because it provided a way of putting down a tone or erasing previous marks. In addition, collage allows home to multiple images over the scaffolding of a drawing. He use materials from the subject’s world to create their likeness.
