| Graphic arts
Antique prints - Moralities, Caricatures and Humorous
Tom and Bob among the Coster Mongers at a Donkey Cart race
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Wayne White
Nascar Tit Shirt
For his first solo exhibition in New York, Los Angeles-based artist Wayne White will present a series of paintings and a diorama installation entitled "Roy Acuff’s Cave." Manipulating thrift-store lithographs of landscapes by adding painted architecturally- driven text, White creates work which vacillates between the serious and the ridiculous. Interested in exploring the easy, escapist nature of these "ready-made" pastoral scenes, White disrupts the idyllic settings by interjecting a personal blend of screwball surrealism and humor. His text, perspectivally rendered in monumental letters, runs the gamut from vivid pop cultural descriptions ("Nascar Tit Shirt") to post-modern observations on art ("Painting Which Came to Life Only to be Mocked-Forgotten") to colloquialisms from the American South ("Honey Where’s My Learnin Books"). [read more]
both thanks to Travellers Diagram
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