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Steve Gianakos AUCTION RECORDS
Born 1938. Known for: Collage, satirical pop art.
Since the 1970s Steve Gianakos has been reveling in sexism, kiddy porn, cheap comics and coloring-book-style renditions of television characters, and is described as serving it all up with irony,... Read full biography
Since the 1970s Steve Gianakos has been reveling in sexism, kiddy porn, cheap comics and coloring-book-style renditions of television characters, and is described as serving it all up with irony, tawdry punch lines and visual puns. A recent exhibition in New York City, "Whatever Tickles Your Fancy:... Read full biography
Since the 1970s Steve Gianakos has been reveling in sexism, kiddy porn, cheap comics and coloring-book-style renditions of television characters, and is described as serving it all up with irony, tawdry punch lines and visual puns. A recent exhibition in New York City, "Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Works from the 70s to the Present," was the first major showing of the artist's work there in many years. The show included numerous pieces, large and small, serving as both a mini-retrospective and... Read full biography
Since the 1970s Steve Gianakos has been reveling in sexism, kiddy porn, cheap comics and coloring-book-style renditions of television characters, and is described as serving it all up with irony, tawdry punch lines and visual puns. A recent exhibition in New York City, "Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Works from the 70s to the Present," was the first major showing of the artist's work there in many years. The show included numerous pieces, large and small, serving as both a mini-retrospective and showcase of current interests. His images, generally derived from the lower echelons of popular culture, are mechanically enlarged, reduced, warped, repeated and recopied before being juxtaposed and joined together. Gianakos might use the same... Read full biography
Since the 1970s Steve Gianakos has been reveling in sexism, kiddy porn, cheap comics and coloring-book-style renditions of television characters, and is described as serving it all up with irony, tawdry punch lines and visual puns. A recent exhibition in New York City, "Whatever Tickles Your Fancy: Works from the 70s to the Present," was the first major showing of the artist's work there in many years. The show included numerous pieces, large and small, serving as both a mini-retrospective and showcase of current interests. His images, generally derived from the lower echelons of popular culture, are mechanically enlarged, reduced, warped, repeated and recopied before being juxtaposed and joined together. Gianakos might use the same photocopied image several times to tease out different meanings in different contexts. To finish his works, Gianakos applies a layer of protect... Read full biography
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