American Woman - Work In Progress

36 x 86

image transfer, acrylic, gouache, graphite on panel

2026

“The artist's mother, a burned living room, a life spent repairing damage she didn't create — making beauty from what was left.”

World Leader Pretend

48 x 66

image transfer, acrylic, graphite, gouache, vinyl on panel

2026

"A horse from a found photograph, monumental and tender, transferred onto plywood — the material of the barn world he was born into. Beside him, a designer's color palette catalogs the cowboy mythology: all surface, all costume, all performance. Named after the R.E.M. song about performing leadership — the hollowness inside the legend."

Gods and Monsters

48 x 66

acrylic, image transfer, graphite, house paint on panel

2017

SOLD

"The cowboys of Breedlove's rural Southern childhood — magnificent and destructive simultaneously. Beneath the pink, the title of the body of work is buried, obliterated by the very color the culture could never acknowledge."

No Freedom Til We’re Equal

66 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer, collage on panel

2025

"Two soldiers kissing, American Gothic deconstructed. Breedlove's arrival at fully realized adult sexuality and political identity — the personal becoming explicitly public, the private life claimed as a civil right."

Lion Tiger Tiger Bear

36 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer, vintage wood, electrical wire on panel

2024

"A seated figure watching from across a golden field — recognition without vocabulary, longing without name or understanding. The barn wood from the family auction barn brought physically onto the surface, the material of that world now carrying the weight of what it could never acknowledge."

Fairy Tales Are Full Of Shit

48 × 48

acrylic, graphite, vintage photo on panel with resin

2014

SOLD

"Breedlove's mother by the lake in a bikini, weeks after an accident, a coma, a wired jaw, and an unimaginable loss — wearing a wig with a curler in it so no one would know. Present. Alive. Refusing to disappear. The title is her hard-won wisdom, not cynicism."

This Is Not The End

81 x 58

acrylic, graphite, vintage photo on panel with resin

2014

SOLD

"Breedlove's mother on horseback, massive and luminous, painted just before her death. At 81 x 58 inches she fills the room — the title a declaration of her endless resilience, though the end was closer than the artist knew."

FUCK

42 x 56

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2025

"The artist as a happy child, unaware of what lies ahead. The deteriorated surface tells the story of everything that followed — the damage, the silence, and the long road back to his true self."

I Taught Myself To Be A Man

44 x 73

image transfer, acrylic, graphite on panel

2026

"The auction barn world that formed Breedlove's father, and the masculinity it demanded. Breedlove — the boy deployed into that world rather than taught how to be a part of it — left to map manhood alone."

Motherland

26 x 48

image transfer, acrylic, graphite on panel

2025

"Not a portrait but an idealization — a snapshot of a family friend standing in for Breedlove's mother, surrounded by hand-drawn stars. The most tender painting in the body of work, the artist present as light and celebration, honoring the woman who made the best of bad circumstances."

Relier

60 x 60

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2020

"Two stags in darkness, quietly together, generating their own light. Painted in response to the isolation of Covid, Relier is Breedlove's longing for connection made visible — the only painting in the body of work that lives in the present tense rather than looking back."

Please Forgive Me

36 x 48

acrylic, image transfer, graphite, house paint on panel

2017

"The most emotionally naked painting in the body of work. Forgiveness directed at Breedlove's father, also at the artist, as well as at the painting itself — the dissolving figure and the aggressive mark he couldn't take back, reaching toward reconciliation across a distance that can't fully be closed."

Ride the Pink Pig

66 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2026

"A child behind a grate, drawn toward something he can feel but not yet name. The most innocent painting in the sexuality narrative — desire arriving before language, before understanding, before shame."

Gardening At Night

72 x 50

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2024

Collection: The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia

"Breedlove tending something private in darkness, before he had the freedom to tend it in the light. The most poetic painting in the sexuality narrative — longing made conscious, desire given careful, quiet attention for the first time."

Porterdale Pool Party

48 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2022

"Women laughing in the sun, cigarettes and music, a beach Breedlove's mother created from hauling truck loads of sand to the family pond. Joy as inheritance — the world she made possible, documented and celebrated."

In The Kind Of World Where We Belong

66 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer, collage

and googly eye on panel

2024

SOLD

"Breedlove's mother loaded up the truck every summer, driving her children toward joy despite everything pulling against her. Childlike drawings, a real 3D googly-eye for the elephant, and the beach she made possible every year — the kind of world where they belonged, built from her sheer determination and love."

Selfie 1972

36 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2026

"Breedlove as a child in a class photo, smiling for the camera — a selfie before selfies existed. Beneath the composed surface, fighters rage — the interior emotional life hidden inside the performed childhood self."

Son Have You Met My Wife?

40 x 30

image transfer, acrylic, graphite, sharpie on panel

2025

"A question asked of Breedlove at a family funeral — passive aggressive, deflecting, arriving at the worst possible moment. Childlike houses drift across the surface, the surrealism of grief and a lifetime of avoidance rendered visible."

How Did We Fall Apart

36 x 48

acrylic, graphite, image transfer on panel

2024

"A red field and a gun. Painted in a moment of frustration and disbelief — the weight of accumulated damage from family and relationships made visible. The question the painting asks has no easy answer."

Yo Yo Yo Great Ishkatay, Do You Come In Peace?

32x56

acrylic, graphite, gouache, image transfer on panel

2025

"A representation of Breedlove as a boy at play in a headdress, visibly different, asking whether the world will receive him. The earliest outward sign of what had been stirring inside — innocent, unaware of the conflict that lay ahead."

Without Understanding Why

84 x 33

acrylic, graphite, gouache, image transfer on panel

2026

"A child alone at the water's edge, adult men above him free in their bodies and the world. Something stirring beneath consciousness — desire absorbing itself before it has language, direction, or even recognition."

Fairy Circle

36 x 48

acrylic, image transfer, graphite, house paint on panel

2017

“The origin painting, made before Breedlove had language for what he was. Cowboys occupy a field of metallic pink — the title borrowed from the paint color name itself, discovered by accident, written on the surface in a child's hand."