Title: Broadcast Veil
Inventory Number: APC20101714
Size: 17 x 14 in
Medium: Silk screen on smooth printmaking paper (non-Arches)
Creation Date: 2010
Subject: Self-portrait pop art
Status: Available
Description
Broadcast Veil is among the earliest of Maria Lankina’s self-portrait silkscreens — and one of the few surviving works from her first intensive experimentation with pop-infused visual language in 2010. Rendered in stark halftone against a clean white field, the portrait is interrupted by jagged stripes of blood-orange ink and soft silver mist, evoking the feel of distorted television transmissions or censorship tape.
A bold right-hand print, pressed into the lower third of the composition, reclaims authorship and material presence. The work is printed on smooth printmaking paper, different from the later Arches editions — lending it a flatter, glossier surface, more in line with commercial print media.
This particular piece has had a visible public life:
Featured in a Saatchi Curator’s Collection inspired by Andy Warhol.
Selected as a hero image in a music video set design commission.
Digitally reproduced and scaled up for exhibition and installation contexts, while this remains the one-and-only original.
It serves as both blueprint and artifact — a threshold work between print and persona, critique and myth.