Steven Parrino is best known for his signature ‘misshaped’ monochromes with slashed, torn, or twisted canvases. An established pioneer in performance and video art, his radicalism was born out of a deep understanding of the history of painting and the avant-garde. The vibe of his work derives from his other loves: Pop iconography and the subversive counterculture of the Hell’s Angels, the occult, and the No Wave and punk rock movements. His commitment to the belief that ‘radicalism comes from content and not necessarily form’ radiates throughout his artistic practice, where he utilises disciplines ranging from painting, photo collage, and drawing to film, video, and performance. At the end of the 1980s Parrino’s work began to diverge aesthetically. Never completely comfortable with the ‘Neo-Geo’ label, his work took on a darker, more monumental character. The iconic monochrome paintings took shape as radical, nihilistic, pop sculptural objects—a transformation that fused historical tradition with the defunct notion of the avant-garde.