«Alex's practice
addresses celebrity culture and the iconography of L.A. through the conceptual lens of Warhol and Duchamp.
Not exact matches
A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often
address the
celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted...
A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often
address the
celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living
celebrities such as Jeff Koons, Bill Clinton, and Kate Moss.
Breitz, whose past works include a mash - up of the films Basic Instinct, Dirty Harry, and The Witches of Eastwick, will
address issues of empathy in a
culture where identification with
celebrities is as common as indifference to people facing hardship.
Like his previous exhibition at the gallery, Exquisite Terribleness, combining images from the Ghanaian landscape with work made in the U.S. problematizes Gray's position within the African Diaspora, while referring to the
celebrity and music
culture of Los Angeles that Gray was a part of and participant in, and
addressing notions of identity, memory, history and loss.
Nina Chanel Abney's (b. 1982, Chicago) pieces
address pop
culture and racial conflicts, informed as much by hip - hop
culture, animated cartoons, as by
celebrity websites and tabloid magazines.
Proliferating across art forms, from performance and music to film, video, photography, painting and sculpture, the artists embraced semantics, historicism, new feminism,
celebrity, and market competition, while also establishing a strong DIY
culture, speaking out through instigating magazines, events and criticism, to the point that an inevitable backlash began, with people wanting something less hermetic that would directly
address impending crises such as AIDS and Reaganomics.
The shockwaves that reverberated through America have come into focus again with Manson's recent death, making Helter Skelter I a timely piece that
addresses the persistent issues of race, crime and
celebrity culture that continue to structure urban America.
He created morbidly humorous works that often
address the
celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary
culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living
celebrities, like Kate Moss or Jeff Koons.