Not exact matches
His dynamic polychrome forms confront the viewer with
familiar yet fragmented forms: a virus, a
cartoon figure, a carnival.
Imbuing
familiar figures of American
cartoon culture with psychological charge and emboldening them with aggressive, gestural physicality, Joyce Pensato reveals a darker side of American Pop.
Portraying a pair of gigantic
figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, the sculpture alludes to
familiar childhood toys and
cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences...
A silicone - and - wax oil puddle by Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda becomes a lonely island, a
familiar childhood
cartoon slits and sketches across the picture plane until it is barely recognizable in a piece by Antoine Donzeaud, «[a] memory is cast in a foggy
figure on the brink of evaporation» in Henry Chapman series of abstract paintings.
Made on canvas stretched over wood panels, each painting in KAW's new series of shaped paintings takes on the silhouette of a
familiar figure from animated
cartoons and comic strips.