His large - format collage drawings fuse poetry, song lyrics, and popular phrases with the visual iconography
of biker culture, the sex industry, and the world of music.
Sunday, June 12 «Ride with Norman Reedus» (AMC) at 10 p.m. / 9c «The Walking Dead» star will tour the U.S. exploring all the facets
of biker culture.
The future
of biker culture will be less Hells Angels, more Golden Girls.
Not exact matches
In the second half
of the 20th century, the denim jacket became indelibly associated with pop
culture as it was adopted by artists: beat intellectuals, rock stars, punks,
bikers and hip - hop musicians.
What most people don't know is that there are lots
of things to
biker culture that many don't understand while others have misconceptions about it.
However, once you start to reap the fruits
of your labor, you'll find yourself immersed in the
biker culture, which might come as a shock that you need to prepare for.
Roger Corman's The Wild Angels took the outlaw
culture of the
biker movie into nervy, nihilistic territory.
Yorkville was a place where, potentially, you could develop a more discerning eye for understanding the production
of culture and sometimes come to recognize the coincidence between mass cultural production and the regression
of one's own intellect, as
bikers, greasers, hippies, teenyboppers, and sometimes political organizers, congregated in the coffee shops and flop houses, or just hung out on the streets, all pretending that we were creating a new society free from the normative shackles
of conventional morality and lifestyle but basically we were looking for drugs, sex and rock and roll and our twenty minutes
of fame.
In Bikin» and Brotherhood, Spurgeon offers a glimpse into the sinister and misunderstood world
of American
biker - gang
culture.
Your event will highlight historic influences
of culture from the many iconic stops along the way, from a retro malt shop to a classic
biker's garage.
Prince's technique involves appropriation, and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank
of popular
culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility, with images stemming from the Marlboro Man, muscle cars,
biker chicks, off - color jokes, gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels, among many other sources.
Biker culture is the theme
of his exhibition, Wot No Bike.
The
cultures clash symbolically in Richard Prince's photomontage
of images
of a love - in and a
biker rally, and abstractly in Mary Heilmann's brightly colored «Seeing Things,» which is half orderly grid, half phantasmagoric splat.
These draw upon heavy metal music,
biker culture, Romantic prose, and video games where by Page examines how their visual language and cultural content is itself borrowed, reinterpreted and redefined and then furiously re-consumed, leading to the development
of cross-cultural narratives.
Childhood memories
of dirt biking
culture informed the palette and the expressionistic brushwork
of the white
Biker 1 (14 January 2015) and black and cobalt
Biker 2 (3 January 2015), which are arresting examples, as is the variegated dark Black Valley (6 February 2015).
Over a career that spanned nearly fifty years, he produced thousands
of images beginning in the 1940s, robbing straight homophobic
culture of its most virile and masculine archetypes;
bikers, hoodlums, lumberjacks, cops, cowboys, and sailors, and recasting them — through deft skill and fantastic imagination — unapologetic, self - aware, and boastfully proud enthusiasts
of gay sex.
Our favorite was an image
of hands arranging a pair
of biker boots; a symbol
of the leather
culture that was the graphic subject
of much
of his photography.