Pop Surrealism 1998
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Excerpts from the article: Artforum “Pop surrealism.” (exhibit at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art) Oct, 1998 by Steven Henry Madoff
Sprawling through Ridgefield, Connecticut’s Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, “Pop Surrealism” proves one point above all else: at the end of the century in the visual arts, invention is a form of debt. The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism’s dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art’s celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over to the packaged good.
Excerpts from the article: Artforum “Pop surrealism.” (exhibit at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art) Oct, 1998 by Steven Henry Madoff
Sprawling through Ridgefield, Connecticut’s Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, “Pop Surrealism” proves one point above all else: at the end of the century in the visual arts, invention is a form of debt. The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism’s dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art’s celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over to the packaged good.