"Status
Factory" - The Art of Ron
English
Hurley,
Opera Gallery, and Planet illogica
Present
an exhibition curated by Opera
Gallery and
Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle
Arts
Pavilion
November
10th 2010 - December 17th
2010
Opening
Reception: Friday, November 12th 6:00pm
-10:00pm
Costa Mesa, CA- November
2nd, 2010- The Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts
Pavilion in collaboration with Opera Gallery and Hurley presents Status
Factory, a surreal assemblage of over 100 artworks by Ron English. This
highly interactive exhibition traces the arc of English's most ambitious themes
across
mediums.
One of the most
prolific and recognizable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global
landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies,
books, television, and album covers. English coined the term POPaganda to
describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from
superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his vast and
constantly growing arsenal of original characters. Ron English's art, whether in
paintings, billboards, murals, or sculpture, blends stunning visuals with the
bitingly humorous
undertones of
America's Premier Pop
Iconoclast.
Born in
Illinois, Chicago in 1959, Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and
satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in
song, and directly onto hundreds of pirated billboards. English exists
spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real-life
Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong
sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive media savvy, and
Dali-meets-Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday
and breaking the momentum of the didactic approach to art and life, English
offers up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is
subverted, and there is always room for a little good-natured
fun.
-Opera Gallery www.popagenda.com
- OC Arts
Pavilion occartspavilion.blogspot.com
Who:
Ron English
What:
Featuring over 100 works of
art, live painting and
more
When:
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 12th, 2010
6:00pm
-10:00pm
Where:
Orange Coast College - Frank
M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
2701
Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Parking in Lot D9 (Off Merrimac
Street)
Special Thanks to our Sponsors:
Opera
Gallery
Hurley
Planet illogica
Hansen Soda
O.N.E Drinks
Long Board Ice Cream
Waialua
Soda
For Media
Inquires
Contact:
Evolutionary
Media
Group
Julia Axelrod / Alanna
Navitski
323.658.8700
Julia@emgpr.com /
Alanna@emgpr.com
For Gallery
Inquires
Contact:
Andrea Harris
714-432-5102
alharris@occ.cccd.edu
