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Vincent Van Gone and The Mona Loser

Jaxon Northon

oil on canvas | 2025
48" x 48"

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STYLE:

  • Narrative Realism
  • Contemporary Allegory

THEMES:

  • Western Myth
  • Counterculture
  • Duality

KEY CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Symbolic Object Use
  • Fashion as Narrative
  • Jewelry Signifiers
  • Desert Setting

On View At: Bibliotheque
54 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10013

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Vincent Van Gone and The Mona Loser

$16,000
About This Artwork:

In Vincent Van Gone and The Mona Loser, Jaxon Northon delivers a mythic double portrait of two modern wanderers; equal parts allegory, pop-theology, and desert hallucination. Set against the scrubland and shadowed peaks outside Reno, Nevada, the painting captures two figures posed in defiant unity, facing east toward an unseen city and a half-promised future.


The work plays with scale, reference, and coded detail. It’s at once personal and panoramic, rooted in Western iconography and wired with cultural voltage. On one side stands The Mona Loser — worn, regal, slightly ruined, clutching a nearly empty bottle of bourbon and staring through mirrored sunglasses. On the other, Vincent Van Gone, her stance both regal and ironic, holds the severed head of María Félix, the Mexican screen legend, styled like Salomé with John the Baptist. A cuckoo bird perches between them, mid-call.


Northon’s painting draws deeply from visual storytelling: Renaissance composition, desert folklore, fashion editorials, Schiaparelli, Elvis, and Catholic martyrdom all flicker through the frame. The result is a contemporary mythology constructed through presence and accumulation. As the artist writes, “They are partners. One is poor and a lunatic, the other is just poor. One is unmatched in beauty and destined for greatness. The other is just an old sucker toiling away days in obscurity.” The language is sharp, but not cynical. There’s empathy here. Both figures are elevated and undone by their shared delusions and quiet resolve.


The landscape behind them — Mount Rose, rooted in Washoe legend — functions as a kind of witness; watching these two mortals try to wrench meaning from a culture designed to move on without them. They wear symbols like armor: belts, rings, bruises, and memories. Their unity is part pact, part performance.


In Northon’s hands, these figures are neither tragic nor triumphant. They are in progress; haunted by artistic ambition, romantic ideals, economic futility, and just enough swagger to keep going. Whether they’re seekers, fools, saints, or scam artists is beside the point. What matters is that they showed up, together, and refused to disappear.

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About the Artist

Jaxon Northon

Jaxon Northon, an American portrait artist and illustrator born in Reno, Nevada, developed his skills as a self-taught oil painter during his teenage years in San Francisco. He is known for his highly realistic paintings of individuals he encounters in everyday life, often those who occupy the fringes of society, a fascination that began with drawing people on buses in San Francisco. Northon's meticulous attention to detail, capturing wrinkles, scars, and other unique features, is central to his work. He views portrait painting as a way to understand the human condition and affirm the importance of each individual within the vastness of existence, believing that each person, though part of a multitude, is a unique and significant entity. To tell a more comprehensive story about his subjects, he incorporates symbolic and metaphorical elements in his compositions, using objects, animals, and text. Northon's work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and in London, and he participated in The Art Students League of New York's Career Development Program. He also takes on commissioned portraits, with his work appearing in various magazines, publications, and films. His paintings were featured in the documentary "André is an Idiot," which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Northon currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to create his compelling portraits.

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