Beyond Warhol in the 21st Century: A Post-Pop MetaRomantic Retrofit

Catalog for an exciting and groundbreaking art exhibition in Chicago, April-May 2010 featuring four contemporary artists from across the country who explore the tensions between Modernism and Pop Art through the works of Andy Warhol. Rather than a simple, shorehugging reiteration of the pop style and aesthetic of Warhol in the mode of Jeff Koons, they filter Warhol through their own metaromantic prism in a strong, provocative and highly subjective manner. These four would rather advance the personal vision of the artist than negate it. Exploration, both interior and of the world at large, is their chief goal, whether it is reexamining old truths or retrofitting a synthesis of prior methods, styles and ethea with a new vocabulary.