Houben Tcherkelov, known as Houben R.T., is one of the most significant contemporary Bulgarian-American artists living and working in America. His innovative artwork depicts money and explores the symbolic links between national currencies, power, and national identity. Houben R.T. renders banknotes into ‘money images’ in a colorful, visually explosive and highly textured manner, isolating them from their traditional milieu of paper money and transposing them onto canvas. [More]

Artrepreneur, Apr-14-2017