Rendered in bright colors and with acute precision, these works suggest a core sample
of pop cultural references that have been manipulated just short of illegibility.
But she bucks this value judgment, focusing instead on the psychology at work behind the interplay of interaction and confrontation between wildly different materials that relate to a confusing set
of pop cultural references.
A mercenary by trade, he's frequently apathetic, utterly self - obsessed, fairly unhinged (he talks to the voices in his head, and they often respond), and a veritable encyclopaedia
of pop cultural references.
Paul McCarthy's energetic new London exhibition at Hauser & Wirth does not disappoint, turning out to be one of 2011's «must - see» shows Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl
of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.
Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl
of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.
Not exact matches
While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical
pop -
cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front
of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field
of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out
of the thousands stretching before him.
Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's
pop -
cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic
references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all
of which figure into one
of the movie's better visual gags).
Despite the disclaiming
of provoking racial signifiers and within musical and
pop cultural references, it does not deserve a revocation
of its artistic license and freedom.
With numerous
pop -
cultural references, movie
references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower
of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord
of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).
In the midst
of all this, Reynolds never stops cracking wise on every comic book or
pop cultural reference that can be squeezed into two hours.
With its art historical and
pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation
of found imagery.
Combining art historical, political, and
pop cultural references she introduces a complex vision
of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions
of beauty.
Memphis Living is an homage to the designs
of the short - lived Memphis Group founded in Milan by architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, designs Bas first encountered predominantly through their
pop cultural references and simulations, and which he only later came to know as an aesthetic movement.
Apfelbaum's work explores the limitations
of traditional disciplinary forms, approaches to abstract representation, and
references to graphic
pop cultural imagery.
Vernon Fisher: Flaubert's parrot Schrodinger's cat hey look monkeys throwing shit The celebrated painter unveils a new body
of work with «a wide range
of pop cultural and literary
references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.»
1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations
of Geometry, Whitney Museum
of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty
of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs
of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum
of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning
of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post
Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game:
Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre
Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)
Through her dynamic application
of paint and
pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities
of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.
In your ambitious triptych I Still Face You, for example, you make
references to California
Pop Art, Piero della Francesca, hard - edge painting — different kinds
of styles that refer to different
cultural perceptions.
What Lawrence achieves in these ten prints is that perfect, and rare, contemporary synthesis
of pop -
cultural reference and symbolic depth.
Working to establish balance and harmony between
cultural extremes, his unique style
of working
references both western
pop art and eastern artistry as he strives to re-invent a concept
of beauty that's welcomed by viewers from all
cultural heritages.
Fisher's latest body
of work presents a wide range
of pop cultural, literary, and scientific
references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.
They found unique ways
of referencing popular culture, either through stylistic simplifications evocative
of popular illustrations and cartoons, or through the direct depictions
of pop -
cultural tropes.
Through refined, calculated, and controlled gestures, whether it's application
of paint, color choices, compositions, or
pop cultural references, all
of these works lead to moments
of reflection and beauty among the chaos.
In its embrace
of pop -
cultural references, his painting showed a kinship with that
of his classmates Derek Boshier, David Hockney, and RB Kitaj.
Phillipson's recent exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, through the flesh - tone scenario, the imported combi - boudoir (2013), saw the artist create a multi-layered installation that investigated the relationship between virtual and tactile spaces through
cultural references as diverse as point -
of - view «selfies», experimental architecture, supermarkets, museums and
pop videos.
Either as a
pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices
of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds,
of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.
Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out
of the most contemporary detritus — styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners — which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and
pop cultural references.
Marrying art history
references and specific
pop -
cultural passions are key to Roberts» brilliance and in SOFT LIFE / HARD NITES we will see acrobatic amazonian women with hip - hop swagger pull shapes like they fell out
of a Matisse painting and into the 21st century.
Razmi's body
of work focuses on issues
of identity and gender while appropriating national,
cultural and artistic
references to reposition
pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.
Through her dynamic application
of paint and
pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions boldly extend the possibilities
of action painting.
Frequently interjecting his own name or image into his work, in addition to collected
cultural reference, one
of Turk's most recognizable pieces is
Pop, 1993, in which the artist created a realistic wax figure
of himself as punk icon Sid Vicious — posed as Andy Warhol's Elvis.
Mixing graphics and
references of international
pop - culture with the
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The
Pop art movement was largely a British and American
cultural phenomenon
of the late 1950s and»60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in
reference to the prosaic iconography
of its painting and sculpture.
Producing all the costumes, make up and sets and playing all the characters herself, Maclean creates disturbing yet hilarious narratives that blend appropriated present day
pop cultural material with a multitude
of narrative
references.
Mounted on fields
of primarily black and blue, Kass incorporates neon lights in her paintings for the first time, limiting her signature palette, to spell out puns and phrases bearing
pop cultural references that provide a somber meditation on the troubling present, and uncertain future.
The forms and gestures found in her work derive from a wide variety
of inspirations and art historical
references, such as CoBrA, Situationism and Abstract Expressionism but also
pop cultural aesthetics like graffiti or cartoon that indicate Ekblad's genre - crossing approach.