Ocean Waves
by Retna
Year: 2025
Medium: Enamel with crystalline on canvas
Size: 72 × 36 in
Commanding in scale, Retna’s Ocean Waves (2025) is an enamel with crystalline on canvas work measuring 72 × 36 inches. Its luminous surface and textured finish reflect the artist’s contemporary urban art language, while the ocean-inspired title evokes movement, rhythm, and fluid form. The expansive format gives this original artwork a striking presence, offering strong appeal to discerning collectors. Clear artist, title, date, medium, and dimensions support reliable cataloguing and provenance.
Ocean Waves by RETNA brings the force and rhythm of the artist’s Los Angeles street-art roots into a refined studio composition. RETNA’s visual language first emerged through graffiti, but Ocean Waves is best understood as a fine-art work rather than a documented street piece. No confirmed street-graffiti version is known, allowing the work to stand as a focused expression of his evolving calligraphic practice.
RETNA’s invented script draws from Gothic lettering, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and graffiti. In Ocean Waves, these influences create a flowing visual current. The marks suggest movement, change, memory, and the constant exchange between cultures. The wave becomes a symbol of energy and renewal, while the coded language invites personal interpretation.
For collectors, Ocean Waves offers the appeal of an original RETNA work with strong visual presence and clear ties to his most recognizable style. His position at the meeting point of street art and contemporary abstraction gives works from this period lasting market relevance.
In our experience, Ocean Waves has the quality that makes RETNA works compelling: it commands attention immediately, then rewards a closer look.
The work fits RETNA’s mature calligraphic period and relates to his Malibu, Margraves, and other language-driven works, reflecting his continued evolution from graffiti artist to internationally collected contemporary artist.
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Ocean Waves
by Retna
Year: 2025
Medium: Enamel with crystalline on canvas
Size: 72 × 36 in
Commanding in scale, Retna’s Ocean Waves (2025) is an enamel with crystalline on canvas work measuring 72 × 36 inches. Its luminous surface and textured finish reflect the artist’s contemporary urban art language, while the ocean-inspired title evokes movement, rhythm, and fluid form. The expansive format gives this original artwork a striking presence, offering strong appeal to discerning collectors. Clear artist, title, date, medium, and dimensions support reliable cataloguing and provenance.
Ocean Waves by RETNA brings the force and rhythm of the artist’s Los Angeles street-art roots into a refined studio composition. RETNA’s visual language first emerged through graffiti, but Ocean Waves is best understood as a fine-art work rather than a documented street piece. No confirmed street-graffiti version is known, allowing the work to stand as a focused expression of his evolving calligraphic practice.
RETNA’s invented script draws from Gothic lettering, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and graffiti. In Ocean Waves, these influences create a flowing visual current. The marks suggest movement, change, memory, and the constant exchange between cultures. The wave becomes a symbol of energy and renewal, while the coded language invites personal interpretation.
For collectors, Ocean Waves offers the appeal of an original RETNA work with strong visual presence and clear ties to his most recognizable style. His position at the meeting point of street art and contemporary abstraction gives works from this period lasting market relevance.
In our experience, Ocean Waves has the quality that makes RETNA works compelling: it commands attention immediately, then rewards a closer look.
The work fits RETNA’s mature calligraphic period and relates to his Malibu, Margraves, and other language-driven works, reflecting his continued evolution from graffiti artist to internationally collected contemporary artist.