Painted over the course of 1962 to 1963, ‘No title’ exemplifies the ingenuity, raucous exuberance and highly personal visual language that characterizes Lee Lozano’s early production. Demonstrating a combination of masterful, painterly technique and biting humour, here Lozano captures the turbulence and velocity of the world at large, depicting the tail of an airplane entering the ear of a subject adorned with a characteristically exaggeratedly long nose and a grinning, gaping smile. These elements dominate the composition in a cartoonish fashion, Lozano’s unique iconography at the time co-mingling with expressionism, surrealism and pop. Airplanes feature prominently in Lozano’s early works, imagery that evokes artistic drive in its most frenzied and perhaps invasive and penetrative form, emphasized here in expressionistic brush strokes. Lozano created a world in which anthropomorphized body parts, tools, religious symbols and speeding vehicles are collated into explorations and even subversions of notions of power and progress, themes she would continue to investigate throughout her practice.