Kevin Champeny has built an ongoing series of large-scale mosaics on the theme of money. Each piece is composed of hand-cast urethane miniatures of currency, coins, Bitcoins, prescription drugs, or candy stand-ins for cash. Together, the series turns the iconography of wealth into mosaic art that rewards both distance and close inspection. These are the major pieces in his currency body of work.
The money mosaics are a recurring thread across Kevin Champeny's body of work. Every piece in the series is hand-cast in pigmented urethane resin in his Port Washington, New York studio. The materials change from piece to piece, but the underlying idea is consistent: take an object that represents wealth or value, sculpt and cast it by hand thousands of times over, and assemble those miniatures into a single recognizable image.
Bank On It is the cornerstone of the money series. The piece is a monumental composition made entirely of hand-cast coins of the world. From a distance the work reads as a unified image. Up close, every coin is fully sculpted, individually colored, and recognizable from currencies across the globe.
Bit Bullish is a charging bull rendered entirely in hand-cast Bitcoins. The piece is a direct nod to the bull market, the Wall Street bull, and the cultural moment around digital currency.
Each miniature Bitcoin in the work is sculpted to be recognizable, with the logo cast directly into the form.
Democratization is the American flag rendered in hand-cast Bitcoins. The piece is a quieter statement than Bit Bullish, leaning into the idea of decentralized financial freedom and the cultural shift around digital currency.
The blue field of the flag is composed of densely arranged Bitcoin miniatures, with the stripes carrying the same material in alternating tones. Like every Kevin Champeny mosaic, every element is hand-cast and finished individually.
C-Note is a $100 bill composition built from hand-cast pieces of candy. The piece plays on the slang for a hundred-dollar bill and on the long association between cash and sweets. It is one of Kevin's most visually playful money pieces and one of the most layered: the image of currency made entirely from objects that signify treats, rewards, and indulgence.
Drug Money is a money composition built from hand-cast prescription medications. The piece sits in conversation with Kevin's larger body of work on pharmaceuticals (which also includes the Healer portrait of Jesus made from pain killers, the Prescribed American flag, and the Overdosed portrait). Drug Money draws a direct line between currency and the pharmaceutical industry, making the financial relationship visual.
Across the series, the choice to use currency or wealth-adjacent objects as the literal building blocks of an artwork is deliberate. For Kevin Champeny, material is meaning. A bull is more powerful when it is made of Bitcoins. A $100 bill is more biting when it is made of candy. An American flag carries different weight in coins, in Bitcoins, in pain pills, or in bullets, and the money series is built around that conversation.
Every piece in the money series follows the same fabrication process Kevin uses across his entire body of work:
Color is achieved by mixing pigments directly into the resin, which means the finish goes all the way through every element and does not fade under indoor lighting. The pieces are built to live in collectors' homes for decades.
Most pieces in the money series are available as commissioned custom works. Past commissions have explored custom currencies, branded coins, alternative bull and bear compositions, and collector-specific flag variants.
A custom money mosaic commission typically takes one month to a year, in line with Kevin's standard commission timeline. The process follows the same four stages as any Kevin Champeny commission: initial conversation, concept development, hand-casting in the studio, and delivery.
To inquire about a custom commission in the money series:
The major pieces in the money series are Bank On It (coins of the world), Bit Bullish (Bitcoin bull), Democratization (Bitcoin American flag), C-Note (candy $100 bill), and Drug Money (prescription drugs as currency). New pieces in the series are added periodically.
No. Every coin, Bitcoin, pill, and candy element in the money mosaics is a hand-cast miniature sculpture made of pigmented urethane resin. The pieces are art objects, not collections of actual currency.
Yes. The studio takes custom commissions in the money series and has previously built custom bulls, flags, and currency compositions for individual collectors.
One month to a year, in line with Kevin's standard commission timeline.
Port Washington, New York.
Kevin Champeny is a contemporary mosaic artist based in Port Washington, New York. His work is built from thousands of individually hand-cast urethane resin components, every one designed, molded, and finished by hand.