Pakistani Truck Art (Homage to Jerry Saltz)
1000 piece puzzle featuring the artwork of acclaimed outsider artist Nicole Appel.
Nicole Appel’s Patchwork Portraits represent people non-traditionally, as a collection of the things that they like or care about. Pakistani Truck Art was done as a gift for Jerry Saltz, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Magazine art critic who has long championed her work. With images of Dante’s Inferno, elaborately decorated Pakistani trucks, and even the Drive-By Truckers, this “portrait” of Saltz references his purgatorial years as a long haul truck driver after he had abandoned his career as an artist.
About the Artist
Nicole Appel (b. 1990) lives in Queens and works at Brooklyn’s LAND Studio and Gallery, which she joined in 2016. Previously, Appel was a member of Manhattan’s Pure Vision Arts’ studio program, where she first began creating her specialized portraits, each an homage to an important individual in her life.
Nicole Appel's works are included in important collections, nationally and internationally, including representation in the collections of The Museum of Everything and Brian Donnelly, a.k.a KAWS. In 2025, KAWS included 10 of Appel’s Patchwork Portraits, from his personal collection, in the critically acclaimed, blockbuster show, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection, at the Drawing Center, in N.Y.C. Her work has been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair, in New York City, and sold out for the past 13 consecutive years.
Product Information:
* 1,000 piece puzzle
* Completed puzzle size: 26.5x19.25 in (67.30x48.90 cm)
* Designed in Brooklyn, printed, assembled, and packed in the USA.
* Made with 100% recyclable materials