Large Tonic | Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1986 - 2008

Dan Sturgis showed in the exhibition 'Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1986 - 2008'. The exhibition showed how the evolution of Pop Art has influenced the varying approaches taken by contemporary artists working across the world.

The exhibition acknowledges the importance and influence of artists such as Andy Warhol and his pioneering approach to using and embracing technology as well as demonstrating how these ideas and concepts have been adopted and exchanged between the West and the East. It breaks with with the convention that Pop was an Anglo-American phenomenon, by acknowledging the influence of Japan as a newly emergent force in contemporary art. Following the ‘slacker’ art movement of the early 1990s, the evolution of Pop Art was taken to new heights by Eastern artists such as Takashi Murakami who founded the so-called ‘Superflat’ style.

The exhibition was curated by Richard Kirwan, artist and Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College. It comprises thirty artworks from internationally acclaimed and new emerging artists working between 1962 and 2008, and included the following artists: Rachal Bradley, Nicola Carvell, Machiko Edmondson, Faile, Gajin Fujita, James Howard, KAWS, Richard Kirwan, Mariko Mori, Yoshitomo Nara, Jack Newling, Tony Oursler, Monique Prieto, Fiona Rae, Miho Sato, Cindy Sherman, Bridget Smith, Haim Steinbach, Andy Warhol and Gary Webb.