BEYOND POP: ALLAN D'ARCANGELO WORKS FROM THE SIXTIES
Like his Pop Art contemporaries, Allan D'Arcangelo found inspiration in the everyday and in mass culture. The artist incorporated commercial packaging, popular personalities, and advertising logos into his compositions. However, it was American highways, road signs, and the visual language of the country's modern terrain that particularly inspired the artist. His crisp compositions are infused with iconic symbols familiar to any traveler and his simplified perspectival landscapes put the viewer squarely in the driver's seat. As his oeuvre developed, he added overlapping barriers to the scenes, both painted and superimposed with actual objects that obscured the hard-edged vistas. These works, which are referred to as "Barriers" ultimately, led to his "Constellation" series that further refined the images into abstraction. The exhibition will present approximately twenty representative examples of these various styles dating from 1962 to 1970.
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_-Closing-the-Distance_100x100_c.jpg "Lot 204: Bob Kuhn (1920–2007),Closing the Distance, 1977, acrylic on masonite, 24 x 48 in, Sold: $409,500")
