«The Conservative party pledged to crack down on public sector pay and pensions on Monday, in a
politically risky bid to make state «excess» a
battle line at the next general election.
His Surrender Flag with Dollar Skull, or Surrender Flag with Zombie Abstraction, 2015, appears as a sort of
battle standard in the face of a whitewashed art market that has embraced a brand of
politically neutered, highly salable abstract painting, many of whose trappings Vélez reworks into his own practice — airbrushed
lines, torn canvases, messy brushstrokes.