A Few of My Favorites Shirt

$35 USD

Armando Alleyne (b. 1959, New York) has been painting for a lifetime. Armando Alleyne: A Few of My Favorites, his first monograph of collected works was published by Edition Patrick Frey in 2021. Composed mostly of painted and collaged renditions of jazz musicians, Afro-Latin singers, boxers, family members, and acquaintances, Alleyne’s work animates his lived experience in-and-out of homelessness and affected by great losses during the AIDS crisis.

Photos by Elle Bobo

I just found out that we have the T-shirt of the cover, and I think it’s fabulous. I pulled the work together as a little collage of Biggie Smalls—simplification of the lips, the nose and the glasses and the face, as opposed to that piece there, which is also Biggie Smalls but a painting.

Armando, in Interview Magazine

Armando Alleyne in his studio, holding A Few Of My Favorites.