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Rudy
Hetzer

Contemporary mixed-media portraiture exploring identity, time, erosion, and the emotional language of the eyes.

unLayering 2025 by Rudy Hetzer
unLayering
2025

Selected Works

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Available unLayering 2025
unLayering
2025 · Oil & gold leaf on canvas
Sacred gold fractures across monochrome portraiture — identity excavated through texture, light, and impasto gold leaf.
Available Neon Noir 2024
Neon Noir
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
Bold fashion portraiture fused with graffiti energy — chrome reflections, urban calligraphy, and electric colour.
Available Leave Me Here, I'll Find My Way Home 2024
Leave Me Here, I'll Find My Way Home
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
Explosive graffiti energy surrounds a monochrome figure — street script, dripping colour, and controlled chaos converge.
Available Glow From Stillness
Glow From Stillness
Mixed media on canvas · Copper & impasto
Raw copper leaf tears through the surface alongside hyperrealistic eyes — stillness charged with metallic tension.
Available Warhol Embellished No.1
Warhol Embellished No.1
Mixed media on paper · Framed
A reimagining of an icon — street markings, pop energy, and graffiti calligraphy collide with hyperrealistic portraiture.
Available Warhol Embellished No.2
Warhol Embellished No.2
Mixed media on paper · Framed
Colour, pattern and street script layer over a stark monochrome figure — pop culture filtered through an urban lens.
Available Warhol Embellished No.3
Warhol Embellished No.3
Mixed media on paper · Framed
The third in the Warhol series — florals, smiley faces, and LV motifs dissolve into graffiti tag energy.
NFS Veiled Cocoon 2025
Veiled Cocoon
2025 · Mixed media on canvas
From the Veiled series — a figure wrapped in silence, street script dissolving into shadow and structured darkness.
Sold Veiled No.4 2024
Veiled No.4
2024 · Mixed media on canvas
From the Veiled series — eyes that speak through silence, layered with street script and structured shadow.
Sold Veiled No.2
Veiled No.2
Mixed media on canvas
Vivid colour explodes beneath a veiled gaze — luxury motifs and impasto texture fused with emotional intensity.
Rudy Hetzer
About the Artist

Where portraiture
meets the streets

Rudy Hetzer is a Dallas-based mixed-media artist whose work sits at the intersection of hyperrealistic portraiture and urban street art. Working in oil, spray, and sculptural impasto — often incorporating gold leaf, copper, and found materials — each piece excavates the emotional residue beneath the surface of identity.

His eye-focused portraits have been exhibited in galleries across the US, each canvas a collision of classical technique and controlled chaos.

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