About The Work
Kenny Scharf' s aesthetic comes from the vocabulary of popular culture. His subversive vision brings together images of American consumerism and a population of vibrant, playful characters that inhabit his fertile imagination and are readily identifiable through his paintings, sculptures, installations and works on paper. In Check Fest, the simplified images, almost childlike, are elegantly organized in blue and yellow grids making them at the same a readily accessible iconographic vocabulary and a system of signs that translate complex social and political issues.
The work was created to benefit Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
About Kenny Scharf
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: John M Armleder and Kenny Scharf launch new swimwear with Vilebrequin
- Interviews & Features: "We have an opportunity to not just 'return to normal' but to create a new normal" – Glennda Testone
- Art 101: The Art of the Botch Job: What Happens When a Priceless Piece of Art is Destroyed?
- Interviews & Features: "It Was Magical": Kenny Scharf on Club 57 and the East Village Art World of the Early '80s
- News & Events: She Really Loves Picasso: Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Affair With Art
Screenprint on Rives BFK wove paper
34.25 x 27.00 in
87.0 x 68.6 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist with the blindstamp of the printer, Brand X
About The Work
Kenny Scharf' s aesthetic comes from the vocabulary of popular culture. His subversive vision brings together images of American consumerism and a population of vibrant, playful characters that inhabit his fertile imagination and are readily identifiable through his paintings, sculptures, installations and works on paper. In Check Fest, the simplified images, almost childlike, are elegantly organized in blue and yellow grids making them at the same a readily accessible iconographic vocabulary and a system of signs that translate complex social and political issues.
The work was created to benefit Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
About Kenny Scharf
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: John M Armleder and Kenny Scharf launch new swimwear with Vilebrequin
- Interviews & Features: "We have an opportunity to not just 'return to normal' but to create a new normal" – Glennda Testone
- Art 101: The Art of the Botch Job: What Happens When a Priceless Piece of Art is Destroyed?
- Interviews & Features: "It Was Magical": Kenny Scharf on Club 57 and the East Village Art World of the Early '80s
- News & Events: She Really Loves Picasso: Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Affair With Art
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