The Persistence of Pop
Dates:
22 February – 24 April 1999
Artists:
Howard Arkley, Mike Brown, Denis Chapman, Isabel Davies, Mikala Dwyer, Jeff Gibson, Matthew Jones, Maria Kozic, Christopher Langton, Richard Larter, Linda Marrinon, Callum Morton, Patricia Piccinini, Robert Rooney, David Rosetzky, Richard Tipping, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos
Curator:
Zara Stanhope
Opened by:
Dr Chris McAuliffe (Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne)
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
Touring:
Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
25 May – 17 June 2001
About the exhibition
Spanning a thirty-year period from 1967 to 1997, The Persistence of Pop drew on works from the Monash University Collection to explore how a range of Australian artists engaged with the legacy of Pop art.
The exhibition highlighted the overt influence of popular culture in works such as Howard Arkley’s airbrush paintings of suburban houses and Christopher Langton’s large-scale inflatable kangaroo (Souvenir, 1994). At the same time, curator Zara Stanhope argued that Pop art was never fully embraced in Australia. Acknowledging the influential role of Australian art critic Paul Taylor in rethinking Pop’s legacy from the 1980s onward, the exhibition explored how local artists engaged with Pop art strategies selectively and critically.
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Image: Mathew Jones, The New York Daily News on the day before the Stonewall Riot copied by hand from microfilm records 1997, ink and Texta on vellum, 52 drawings (each 41 x 61 cm; overall 233 x 682.6 cm). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Contemporary Collection Benefactors, 2003