Car Door Prototype | VNICE x JWorks Bodyshop

Tulsa, Oklahoma | 2026
Mixed media automotive paint and custom bodywork

This project started as an experiment.

For a long time, I had wanted to collaborate with a body shop and learn more about the proper process of painting automotive surfaces. Cars are already works of design on their own, and there is an art to automotive paint before you even begin adding custom artwork to it.

Eventually, the timing lined up.

I partnered with my friend Jason, owner of JWorks Bodyshop, to create this car door prototype and begin exploring what could happen when our two worlds came together.

Jason is a young entrepreneur who started his business shortly after high school and has continued building it into his own shop here in Tulsa.

I had the art background.

He had the automotive knowledge, tools, materials, and experience.

Together, we started experimenting.

This car door became our first opportunity to test the process, learn how the different materials behaved, and see how an artistic approach could translate onto a properly prepared automotive surface.

That was the exciting part.

There are so many different paints, finishes, textures, reflective materials, and techniques available in the automotive world that the possibilities feel almost endless.

This project gave us a chance to step outside of our regular client work and simply have fun.

No large wall.

No traditional canvas.

Just a car door and the question:

What could this become?

The idea behind the collaboration has grown beyond this first experiment.

We are interested in creating more pieces that could exist as showroom artwork, exhibition pieces, collector pieces, and custom automotive art for people who appreciate the intersection between cars and visual culture.

There is something interesting about taking an object that normally belongs on a vehicle and allowing it to exist independently as artwork.

This first door has already started doing exactly that.

Since completing it, the piece has been featured in several different spaces and exhibitions around Tulsa.

It has been displayed at The Summit Club, shown during my exhibition at Sample, and is currently displayed inside Combat Warriors Gym as a decorative art piece.

Watching it move between those completely different environments has been part of what makes the experiment exciting.

A car door can exist in a body shop.

It can also exist in a gallery.

It can hang inside a private collection, become part of an exhibition, or be incorporated back into a vehicle.

That flexibility is something we want to continue exploring.

This project was really the beginning.

A prototype, an experiment, and the start of a collaboration between VNICE and JWorks Bodyshop.

We are excited to see where we can take it next.