"A generation of artists who were young in the 60s increasingly looked for artistic vocabularies that they could use to explore the weird and wild time they were living in, said show curator Scott Rothkopf, who has longed to curate this exact show since his student days in the 1990s. The 60s was a time of so much change the fear of the atom bomb, multiple sexual revolutions, the civil rights movement, drug culture. These days felt to many young people like surreal days."
"Sixties Surreal is ambitious, collecting the work of a cool 111 artists, many of whom simply didn't fit into any of the dominant narratives governing the 60s art world, and others who worked far from the established centers of tastemaking. It's a loud, in-your-face experience with screaming colors, laugh-out-loud humor, bodies galore, and even three full-size camels made of wood, steel and burlap."
Sixties Surreal assembles 111 artists from the 1960s who employed surreal, subversive, and erotic imagery to reflect the era's turmoil. The exhibition emphasizes work that fell outside dominant Pop, conceptual, and minimalist narratives and showcases artists working beyond major cultural centers. Vibrant, humorous, and confrontational pieces populate the show, including large-scale sculptures such as three full-size camels made of wood, steel, and burlap, and bold figurative works exploring gender and sexuality. The presentation foregrounds marginalized demographics, especially women artists, and highlights psychedelic, impressionistic, and abstractly erotic approaches to bodies and identity.
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