Ashley Bickerton rose to prominence in the early 1980s as part of New York's East Village art scene with his vibrant abstract works that offered a sardonic critique of contemporary consumer culture. (lehmannmaupin.com)
Basher's work is concerned with the conflicting, contradictory ways hope, desire, ideology and belief are manifest in contemporary consumer culture, specifically considering the pervasive drive of commerce to exploit a vast range of social, religious, tourist and bodily longings. (artistsallianceinc.org)
While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany. (andrearosengallery.com)