In her collages and sculptures, Nicole Wermer's (born in 1971) abstracts the attractions and surfaces
of a contemporary consumer culture to architectural structures that allow for echoes of seduction and control.
Toeing the line between modern expression and interior design, Zittel riffs on the dimensional possibility of Minimalist sculpture and the infinite customizability
of contemporary consumer culture.
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.
Not exact matches
Jing Daily looks at the intersection
of luxury and
culture in China: the ins and outs
of business development there with an eye toward the upscale
consumer market, as well as the business
of culture — from auctions, museums, and
contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.
William Cavanaugh claims that
consumer culture is «one
of the most powerful systems
of formation in the
contemporary world, arguably more powerful than Christianity.»
The show says much about his taste as a
consumer of contemporary culture and his vision for spotting a gallery.
Their collaborative, ephemeral, and visual works reflect on
contemporary culture through the language
of popular music,
consumer culture and other genres.
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.
Prince's initial goal was to emphasize the powerful impact
of mass media imagery in shaping
contemporary consumer culture, but eventually, he ended up creating his very own pop style and powerful series
of works which became some
of the most wanted materials at many prestigious auctions.
A monument for the 21st century, Electric Fountain is a celebration
of the spectacle, excess, beauty, and desire
of contemporary culture and a provocative comment on the nature
of consumer society, a theme often present in Noble & Webster's work.
While some Pop artists use photography to react to
consumer culture, Robert Heineken repurposes found magazine imagery to talk about the media's role in objectifying women, Richard Prince and Sarah Charlesworth
of the Pictures Generation push the boundaries
of image appropriation, Christopher Williams talks about means
of image production and
contemporary artist Lucas Blalock confuses subject and backdrop through Photoshop.
A consummate and prolific collector himself —
of art, books and popular ephemera — Prince's work has continued to explore concepts
of authorship and ownership in relation to the
consumer materials
of contemporary culture.
Hilla Toony Navok's work explores themes
of high Modernism and abstraction as they appear in
consumer products, as a way
of examining the ideological underpinnings
of design and the assimilation
of the history
of Modernism in
contemporary consumer culture.
This exhibition
of modern and
contemporary art explores the transient and expendable nature
of consumer - age
culture.
They reference
contemporary consumer culture through the use
of iconic pop
culture symbols in the form
of shop - front - type signage and carnival shows inherent
of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square.
The Sims can be thought
of as a virtual training ground for
contemporary consumer culture, making explicit capitalist conceptions
of happiness.
Following the quoted Pop mantra
of Andy Warhol, these young and exciting artists absorb and reflect the ubiquitous
consumer imagery so prevalent in
contemporary culture.
Light was also shed on sociohistorical and historico - cultural subjects such as «Shopping — A Century
of Art and
Consumer Culture,» «Privacy,» the visual art
of the Stalin period, or New Romanticism in
contemporary art; other presentations revealed the influence
of Charles Darwin's theories on art
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or the intriguing causalities between artists
of the modern era and self - proclaimed «prophets»
of this period.
Lucie's work may even trigger a deeper reflection on modern
consumer culture,» said Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator
of Contemporary Art at the DMA.
Andreas Gursky, German photographer known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs that examine
consumer culture and the busyness
of contemporary life.
Both are markers
of a new generation immersed in technologies,
consumer culture and the internet; both are also highly aware
of their very conditions and critically investigate varied facets within the
contemporary landscape using art making as a response to those conditioning forces.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 - 10 Joyous Machines: Jean Tinguely and Michael Landy, Tate Liverpool Projections, Carré d'Art — Nîmes Museum
of Contemporary Art 2004 Bad Behavior, an Arts Council Collection exhibition; Hayward Gallery, London; Longside Gallery - Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Swansea - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; The Hatton Gallery - Univeristy
of Newcastle; Carlisle - Tullie House 2003 L'Air du Temps, Bloomberg Space, London Shopping: Art and
Consumer Culture, Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Tate Liverpool Micro / Macro: British Art 1996 - 2002, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest For the Record: Drawing
Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
The official version
of art history describes New York: First there was Abstract Expressionism with its lofty, disengaged, macho mysticism; then in the»60s there was Pop, which dealt with advertising, the funnies and
contemporary consumer culture.
For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series
of detailed images — decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to
contemporary consumer culture — into a sweeping narrative
of a human life.