Beyer Projects worked with John Wesley to create Islamic in 2009. The work is based on a suitcase the artist painted in 1964, and thought to be lost or destroyed before resurfacing at a Connecticut auction house in 2011. The original suitcase (pictured, at left) is now on view in Acquavella Gallery's superb exhibition The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art , curated by art historian John Wilmerding:
"Still life also has long been treated as a minor preoccupation for artists, yet has turned out to be the occasion for some of Pop’s most innovative and witty expressions,” said Wilmerding... "Though Pop artists did not consider themselves as being a part of a unified movement, the still life object has been of shared interest to both canonical Pop artists and lesser-known artists. Two major innovative ideas will be explored in the exhibition: the expansion of still life beyond painting into multidimensional sculptural forms, and the presentation of a variety of new media as modes of expression."