Tomata Du Plenty (American, 1948-2000), "OSCAR DE LA HOYA"

paint on shaped panel, with blue plastic heart, signed to lower edge, verso inscribed and dated "12-95," unframed.
21 x 8 3/4 x 1/2 in.
David Xavier Harrigan, a.k.a., Tomata du Plenty (1948–2000), was one of the founders of Seattle’s early-1970s punk scene with the Ze Whiz Kidz counterculture theatre troupe and fronted acclaimed L.A. synth-punk band the Screamers. In 1982, Du Plenty found an old set of paints and brushes in an alley behind Hollywood Boulevard and began to paint. He also appeared as an art critic on the public access cable television show “What’s Bubbling Underground?” in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Georgia University Museum of Art featured a series of portraits of boxers and musicians that Du Plenty painted in the mid-1990s in an exhibition titled Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene.
Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Good estate condition.