HenryRhoden

Art

A two-tone blue portrait of a man overlaid with the word CRIMINAL repeated in tall red outlined letters.

Criminal

Acrylic on masonite · 18 × 24 in. · Fall 2025

Parsons Drawing and Imaging.

Large abstract painting in glowing reds and pinks over charcoal and black, a tangle of angular, cut-paper-like shapes built up in layers, with a pale pink mass at the centre and a looping red outline curling at the bottom.

Smoke Screen

Acrylic on canvas · 50 × 64 in. · Fall 2025

A photo of me and my friends with an image of smoke laid over it. I layered the two in Illustrator to build the composition and choose every color, mixed each shade myself, then traced the image onto the canvas.

A beaded lemon and a beaded strawberry side by side on a white ledge, both encrusted edge to edge in glass seed beads and rhinestones, with dark grey and brown passages standing in for bruised skin.

Rotting Strawberry and Lemon

Glass beads on carved foam · 2 × 3 in. · 2024

Pinned and glued, modeled into a lemon and a strawberry. Inspired by the large-scale sculpture work of Kathleen Ryan.

The beaded strawberry seen from above, dense red seed beads pinned with silver rhinestones and broken by patches of mold green and violet.

Rotting Strawberry

Glass beads on carved foam · 2024

The beaded lemon from above, a bright yellow field crossed by a dark bruise of plum, amber and steel beads.

Rotting Lemon

Glass beads on carved foam · 2024

The lemon from above: a bright yellow field crossed by a dark bruise of plum, amber and steel beads.

Graphite drawing of four horses galloping across open rangeland, with fence posts, distant mountains and heavy banked clouds above.

Wyoming Horses

Graphite on paper · 12 × 15 in. · Fall 2025

Parsons Sustainable Systems. Inspired by my photos from Encampment, Wyoming.

Still life painting of a skull resting on two stacked books, with a potted orange orchid arcing overhead.

Orchid and Skull

Oil on canvas · 12 × 14 in. · Spring 2026

Parsons oil painting elective. Inspired by Rick Owens’s house in Concordia and my own oncidium orchid.

Layered blue mountain ranges receding under a yellow sky, with chartreuse fields in the foreground.

Blue Yellow Mountains

Oil on canvas · 18 × 24 in. · Spring 2026

Parsons oil painting elective. Inspired by the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Hard-edge geometric painting of concentric eight-pointed stars and rectangles in overlapping greys, black and bone white.

Concentric Stars

Acrylic on masonite · 18 × 24 in. · Fall 2025

Parsons Drawing and Imaging.

Menu illustration of grapes, cheese wedges and crackers on a tray, rendered entirely in dense black crosshatching and halftone lines.

Cheese Board

Vector illustration for a menu · 2023

Graphite study of a skeleton's cervical spine, jaw and upper ribcage.

Skeleton Neck Study

Graphite on bristol · 12 × 16 in. · 2023

Menu illustration of coupe glasses, a tumbler and a brandy snifter with a citrus garnish, rendered entirely in dense black crosshatching and halftone lines.

Glassware Illustration

Vector illustration for a menu · 2023

Red folk-art print on toned paper: a bird with outstretched wings inside an oval medallion, framed by borders of checkerboard, dots, leaves and flowers.

Bird Print

Relief print on toned paper · 12 × 18 in. · 2024

Abstract painting in metallic watercolor and gouache, in interlocking bands of blue, pink, green and orange.

Flowing Color

Metallic watercolor and gouache on paper · 2021

Flowing lines of opaque matte gouache layered over metallic watercolor.

A classical profile portrait of a woman rendered in grey tones inside a circular medallion, set against a hand-brushed cornflower blue field.

Coin Sketch

Oil on coated paper · Spring 2026

Three drawings of houses in marker and white gel pen on cardstock, stacked vertically in a single cherry wood frame.

House Triptych

Marker and white gel pen on cardstock · 3 × 5 in. · 2022

Set in a cherry wood triptych frame.

Black relief print of two rabbits sitting behind a lattice fence, their fur built from dense carved hatching.

Bunnies

Relief print · Edition 2 of 5 · 2023

Now interning at MONSE, wholesale and PR, New York, Fall 2026.