Opening Reception

Thursday, January 16

5 - 7 pm

On View

January 16 - February 21, 2025

 

NOTE: the college will be closed on Januray 20 in observance of Martin Luther King Day

Location

The George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery

South City Campus

Center for Arts & Media
1575 S State Street Salt Lake City, UT 84115

 

The Weird Cartoons, Kitsch & Culture of Low Brow Art features works from forty local artists and a handful of others from as far as New York and Mexico City, who work in styles related to cartoons and other sequential art like comic books, comic strips, graphic novels, and Manga, as well as graffiti, tattoos, Naïve / Outsider Art and other related styles.

 

The artist Robert Williams helped pioneer the underground comix movement in the 1960s by co-founding the ground-breaking Zap Comix and later founded the art magazine Juxtapoz. Williams coined the phrase Low Brow Art – an umbrella term that describes many styles and practices that have been historically rejected by formal art academia – comic books, movie posters, trading cards, surfer and tiki art, hot rod culture, and many others. combining these concepts with the surrealist painters of the early 20th century and the psychedelic art that he and his cohorts were creating in the 1960’s, he formed a new art style he calls Pop Surrealism, which has been embraced by a new generation of artists.  

From the Dadaists to Mad Magazine to Post-Pop to Street Art to the wonderfully weird creations on display here, let’s celebrate the rich history of irreverent, boundary-breaking, limit-pushing doodlers who make us laugh and think and want to draw some more.

—James Walton, Curator

Participating Artists
Atentamente una Fresa

Brianna Beck

Bailey Charlesworth

Ron Christensen

Wyatt Combe

Beto Conejo

Olivia Dawson

Jason Dickerson

sel fay

Grant Fuhst

David Habben

Cara Jean Hall

Jann Haworth

George Horner

Chuck Landvatter

Desarae Lee

Christopher Lynn

Kylie Millward

Mike Murdock

Scott Perry

B. Pope

James Rees

Mavis Rice

Andrew Rice

Kayla Rich

William Robbins

Brooke Smart

Mark Walton

Mike Walton

John Walton

Van Williamson

Megan Wilson

Todd Woodward

and Shu Yamamoto

WITH WORKS BY
Robin Banks

Michael Haswood

Daniel Johnston

Ivan Ortega

Justin Orr

Michael Phipps

Mark Rogers

Lamont Joseph White

Robert Williams