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Artist: Stuart Ewen |
| Exhibition: Tactical Action |
| Date: April 14 2004 - June 10 2004 |
Curator: Lea Rekow
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Bio:
After 30 Years Undercover
Archie Bishop Finally Surfaces
At Gigantic Art Space
By day he is Stuart Ewen, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. Programs in History and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. In this persona he is the acclaimed author of some of our most important writings on consumer society, visual culture and modernity, including Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture, All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, PR! A Social History of Spin, and (with Elizabeth Ewen) Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. Identified by Bill Moyers as one of the foremost interpreters today of our culture, Ewen lectures widely at major art museums, universities and cultural centers and his writings have appeared in Time, Art Forum, Art in America and other major periodicals.
By night he is Archie Bishop, pamphleteer, graphic artist, photographer, multimedia prankster, and political situationist for more than thirty years. Though Bishops work has been exhibited internationally, and is documented in numerous publications, to date his art hasfor the most partappeared in the streets, large-scale visual statements and aesthetic commentaries on consumerism and waste, the commercialization of everyday life, the demolition of civil liberties and on the fate of democracy in an age of public relations.
Now, for the first time, Archie Bishops work is offered to serious collectors and art institu-tions. Numismatic Treasure and Shredded Values, both featured in Gigantic Art Spaces Tactical Action exhibit, are Bishops initial contributions in what will be a series of one-of-a-kind and small edition sculptures and graphic works made available for purchase. His redesign of the American flag, Bar Strangled Banner, previously sold at the Whitney Museum and later withdrawn from the market, is also available in a special GAS/Tactical Action edition of one hundred pieces.
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