Rockford Art Museum
Rockford, IL
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Thirty-One Shopping Days 'Til...?
On November 12, 1999
Rockford Art Museum will open an exhibition entitled Thirty-One Shopping
Days 'Til...? Pop Culture in Art at the End of the Millennium. A members'
only reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., followed by a public
opening from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Paul Harvey Oswald, a group of local artists
who incorporate sound bites and imagery from mass media and reconstruct
them into satirical performance-based videos, will perform at the opening.
(left: Lorraine Peltz, "Holiday", 1994, oil on canvas,
courtesy of Galerie Piltzer, Paris)
Sponsored by Marshall Fields, this exhibition showcases
works from artists who have brought issues and images of popular culture
into the realm of the visual arts through paintings, print, sculpture and
video. The show is theme-based and concentrates on the ideas and concepts
of millennium apprehensions and consumerism. Curator Scott Snyder explained,
"The exhibition will have a dichotomous approach. Half of the works
will be based on apocalyptic visions and the other half will concentrate
on pop culture iconography and issues of a materially based culture."
A variety of artists will be on display, including internationally
acclaimed artists Barbara Kruger, Roy Lichtenstein, Jenny Holzer, Claes
Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. Three of Warhol's popular Campbell Soup Can images
will be shown.
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On November 12, 1999
Rockford Art Museum will open an exhibition entitled Thirty-One Shopping
Days 'Til...? Pop Culture in Art at the End of the Millennium. A members'
only reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., followed by a public
opening from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Paul Harvey Oswald, a group of local artists
who incorporate sound bites and imagery from mass media and reconstruct
them into satirical performance-based videos, will perform at the opening.
(left: Lorraine Peltz, "Holiday", 1994, oil on canvas,
courtesy of Galerie Piltzer, Paris)