The fourth model to debut in the Adam Jones Les Paul Custom Art Collection comes from acclaimed American painter Julie Heffernan and features her artwork titled “Self-Portrait as Not Dead Yet” on the back of the guitar, HERE.


This marks the second guitar release with Heffernan’s work: “Study for Self-Portrait with Rose Skirt and a Mouse” HERE.

https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/study-for-self-portrait-with-rose-skirt-and-a-mouse/Antique-Silverburst

“The kind of art I love most--the kind that gathers me up in octopus arms and won't let me go---invariably traffics in excess: Bosch’s encyclopedia of sins, Bonnard’s radiant light, Adam Jones’ explosive riffs. Excess--going beyond the bounds--allows for a way around the self, around self-censorship, into the realm of ecstasy. Visions of heaven in every culture I am aware of incline to excess, providing an idea of bounty essential to psychic survival, where what we need is always amply available. That is art: the apparatus of transformation--already to be the thing we aren't yet.” -Julie Heffernan

The artwork on both guitars is based on Heffernan’s iconic paintings of the same title. The nude self-portraits reflect pressing contemporary concerns, such as women’s rights, precarity of the environment, and other under-represented and socially relevant topics. Heffernan’s work is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco (since 2005), and Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York (since 2022).

This Adam Jones Art Collection guitar from Epiphone features Julie Heffernan’s “Self-Portrait as Not Dead Yet” on the back, and it is also an exceptional instrument for your next musical masterpiece. It has a bound mahogany body with a maple cap, a three-piece bound maple neck with an Adam Jones Custom profile, and an ebony fretboard. It is equipped with a reverse-mounted Epiphone ProBucker™ Custom humbucker™ in the neck position and a Seymour Duncan® Distortion in the bridge; both are wired to CTS® potentiometers and Orange Drop® capacitors. A Marquee Back Plate with the artist’s name and the name of the artwork is also included. Finished in Antique Silverburst as an homage to Adam’s beloved original Silverburst 1979 Gibson® Les Paul Custom, a Protector hardshell case is also included.

The Epiphone Adam Jones Art Collection consists of seven, unique Silverburst Les Paul™ Custom models, each featuring reproductions of different works of fine art on the back. Adam curated all of the featured artwork, and selected five distinguished artists Mark Ryden, Frank Frazetta, Julie Heffernan, Korin Faught, and Ernst Fuchs for the collection; additional artwork designed by Korin Faught, adorns the back of the headstock of each model. Only 800 guitars of each model from this limited edition run will be produced. The Adam Jones Les Paul Custom Art Collection guitar with Julie Heffernan’s “Self-Portrait as Not Dead Yet” and “Study For Self- Portrait with Rose Skirt and a Mouse” follow the recent and now sold-out Epiphone releases of Mark Ryden’s “Veil of Bees,” and Frank Frazetta’s “Berzerker.”

Watch the videos below for the latest additions to the Epiphone Adam Jones Art Collection, and explore the collection HERE.

https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/AdamJonesArtCollection

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