Claire Salvo, Picasso II, 2025

Claire Salvo’s Picasso fuses art history with American currency in a single, charged image. Painted directly onto a one-dollar bill, her portrait echoes Picasso’s early Cubist self-portraits - angular features, restless brushwork, fractured color - pressed into the confines of Washington’s oval frame. The clash between the austere green engraving and Salvo’s expressive paint turns the note into a witty tribute to the artist who redefined value in modern art, asking what happens when a revolutionary mind is literally printed on money.