I was recently turned onto the photographs of Steve Fitch by Johnnie Meier at the Classic Gas Museum in Embudo, NM. I was able to see Fitchs' current exhibition in Santa Fe at Photo Eye Gallery.. If you are around town please check it out as most of the neon signs are from the 1970's and 80's and are long gone.
Robert Mars’ artwork chronicles an evolving fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and celebrates the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s
by taking inspiration from this culture long past. Through the application of a rich color palette and tongue-in-cheek attitude, Mars’ paintings evoke a
vintage quality of design and pay homage to the idealized age of growth and hopefulness that was prevalent in the USA at the end of the Depression.
A time before the internet and mobile technology, where information was not instantly available to millions and there was no such thing as instant internet
celebrities, and instead people lived with the myth of the unique, untouchable and unforgettable personalities of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James
Dean, Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley.
Mars’ work is exhibited with the likes of Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Robert Rauschenberg,
and has been shown worldwide including galleries in Munich, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Australia, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Paris, Aspen, and Bulgaria.
Love these!
ReplyDeleteand now to follow that trail
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing! im working on painting on structures i built to resemble these kinds of signs. Good timing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for another inspiring post.