Pop’d From the Panel

June 25 to December 11, 2011
Downstairs Changing Gallery

The parallel worlds of fine art and commercial art—including advertising, film, photography, and comic strips—came together in the early 1960s in the work of such Pop artists as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Since then, popular culture and mass media have been a rich source from which modern and contemporary artists draw inspiration for their work. Pop’d from the Panel sought to explore the influence comic strips and cartoon art has had on the work of such noted artists as Enrique Chagoya, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ron English, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol. Co-curated by Michael Schwager, Sonoma State University Gallery Director and Professor of Art History, the exhibition featured 29 two- and three-dimensional works of art.

Pop’d from the Panel featured work by 18 noted artists:

James Barsness, Nina Bovasso, Enrique Chagoya, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ron English, Tom Everthart, Llyn Foulkes, David Gilhooly, Jess Harrold, Gottfried Helnwein, José Ramón Lerma, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Suzanne Morlock, Richard Pettibone, Mel Ramos, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol