Comics, band fliers, decorative prints, and other forms
of popular visual culture inform the «zine - like nature of the works by Arturo Herrera and the bespoke patterned paintings by Ruth Root, as well as the riotous, colorful canvases by Carrie Moyer, a cofounder of the agitprop art project Dyke Action Machine!
David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton's collaborative practice draws
on popular visual culture, art history and cinematic traditions to create works that engage the viewer via optical phenomena, juxtaposition and repetition.
Known for their technical experimentation
with popular visual culture, sound, and sculpture, the artists will present a project for Times Square that responds to the history and the spectacle of the site: the ball drop on New Year's Eve; the sound generated by Max Neuhaus» 1977 sound installation Times Square; and the signs on corporate billboards.
At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where Hanson got his BFA in 1969 and has taught since 1973), Hanson was influenced — like most of the young Imagists — by painter Ray Yoshida, whose interest
in popular visual culture (cartoons, especially) and folk art was wildly inspirational.
The Nurse series was appropriated from the covers of old romance novels and they are the ultimate monuments to the underworld and the visual legacy
of popular visual culture.
These recent works reflect the artist's intensely personal reinterpretation of
popular visual culture and the increasingly mediated ways we engage with one another.
Part of NSU Art Museum's Regeneration Exhibition Series, and featuring works from its Golda and Meyer Marks Cobra Collection, the largest Cobra art collection in America, this exhibition explores Cobra artists» innovative use of animal images and how they expressed elements of
popular visual culture.
A new exhibition at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will examine Cobra artists» innovative use of animal images and their expression of
popular visual culture.
James Esber: Your Name Here Two bodies of work continue the artist's preoccupation with distorting the familiar; each series translates images found in today's collective unconscious of
popular visual culture.