NewPop I & NewPop II
The St Louis Artists Guild and Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in
partnership, are pleased to announce NewPop I and NewPop II,. The St.
Louis Artists Guild is teaming up with Hoffman LaChance to bring you a
set of solo exhibitions by Stan Chisholm (aka 18andCounting), happening simultaneously with one another, NewPop I and NewPop II. NewPop I, opening Sunday September 5, 2010 from 1-3pm is located at the St Louis Artists Guild and NewPop II, opening September 3, 2010 from 6-8pm is located at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary.
As two inextricably linked exhibitions, like the relationship one would
find between twins, NewPop I and NewPop II take a stand and
rebelliously stab at the anatomy of pop culture. Through solidarity,
topics such as memes, media, icons, commodity and quality will be
scrutinized through an array of artworks ranging from sculpture,
installation, text, book and drawings. The viewer will not be able to
understand one with out the other. It is imperative that both
exhibitions be considered, they finish one another's sentence and dot
each others "i's". New Pop I and New Pop II is taking the tag-team
approach to visual art.
Chisholm is an interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, MO who studied
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His collages, drawings,
and mixed media installations reveal a growing cast of over 700
characters or mascots that serve as a visual lexicon for the moods,
personal attributes or feelings explored in his work. Chisholm’s work has been exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum (St. Louis), the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago).
In order to highlight the ideas Chisholm is presenting in NewPop, he is
also facilitating a workshop entitled, MoneyBags, part of an ongoing
project. Stan will be joined by his collaborator and Chicago based
artist, Lisa See Kim. Working with a motif usually seen only in
cartoons, MoneyBags is a public art project that transfers the
recognizable image of the moneybag from the comic to the real and
playfully challenges society’s values, the role of currency, the idea
of ownership, and human impulses towards greed and generosity.
Moneybags has multiple iterations, and is not bounded by any single
project. The workshop will be held at both locations on Saturday and Sunday September 25th and 26th from 10am to 4pm. More information to be announced.
The St Louis Artists Guild and Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in
partnership, are pleased to announce NewPop I and NewPop II,. The St.
Louis Artists Guild is teaming up with Hoffman LaChance to bring you a
set of solo exhibitions by Stan Chisholm (aka 18andCounting), happening simultaneously with one another, NewPop I and NewPop II. NewPop I, opening Sunday September 5, 2010 from 1-3pm is located at the St Louis Artists Guild and NewPop II, opening September 3, 2010 from 6-8pm is located at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary.
As two inextricably linked exhibitions, like the relationship one would
find between twins, NewPop I and NewPop II take a stand and
rebelliously stab at the anatomy of pop culture. Through solidarity,
topics such as memes, media, icons, commodity and quality will be
scrutinized through an array of artworks ranging from sculpture,
installation, text, book and drawings. The viewer will not be able to
understand one with out the other. It is imperative that both
exhibitions be considered, they finish one another's sentence and dot
each others "i's". New Pop I and New Pop II is taking the tag-team
approach to visual art.
Chisholm is an interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, MO who studied
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His collages, drawings,
and mixed media installations reveal a growing cast of over 700
characters or mascots that serve as a visual lexicon for the moods,
personal attributes or feelings explored in his work. Chisholm’s work has been exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum (St. Louis), the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago).
In order to highlight the ideas Chisholm is presenting in NewPop, he is
also facilitating a workshop entitled, MoneyBags, part of an ongoing
project. Stan will be joined by his collaborator and Chicago based
artist, Lisa See Kim. Working with a motif usually seen only in
cartoons, MoneyBags is a public art project that transfers the
recognizable image of the moneybag from the comic to the real and
playfully challenges society’s values, the role of currency, the idea
of ownership, and human impulses towards greed and generosity.
Moneybags has multiple iterations, and is not bounded by any single
project. The workshop will be held at both locations on Saturday and Sunday September 25th and 26th from 10am to 4pm. More information to be announced.
