Allan D'Arcangelo

Join us for a conversation celebrating a major new monograph for Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–1998), whose iconic visions of life on the road merges a Pop sensibility with elements of Minimalism, Precisionism, and Hard-edge painting. The authors Alex Taylor, Evan Moffitt, and Cécile Whiting will be in conversation with artist Cory Arcangel, followed by a signing.

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Recognized as a major Pop artist in his day, Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–1998) has yet to receive the critical reevaluation of painters like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. His first monograph in nearly a decade introduces new audiences to his iconic paintings, particularly his celebrated visions of life on the road.
Like Pop peers Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Allan D’Arcangelo incorporated mass-manufactured images in works that elevate scenes of everyday American life. While his work often features imagery from more familiar 1960s art—Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, smoking pin-up girls, Superman, Lucky Strike—it differs in the surreal elements he introduced to Pop tropes and romantic views of the American industrial landscape.
D’Arcangelo once observed his “most profound experiences of landscape were looking through the windshield.” The artist brought a Pop sensibility to the tradition of landscape painting in a graphic style that touched on Minimalism, Precisionism, and Hard-edge painting. Often framed from the perspective of the driver’s seat, D’Arcangelo’s work captures the deeply American experience of flying down an endless road. D’Arcangelo’s signature scrolling landscape cut through with flashing signs is as familiar to road trippers as it is to video game racers.
This comprehensive publication includes over 200 reproductions and three essays detailing what critic Dore Ashton describes as the “poetic awareness of the vastnesses both visible and invisible in American life [that] marked and distinguished [D’Arcangelo’s] work.” This book is edge stained.

Cory Arcangel is an artist and composer living and working Stavanger,Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Applying a semi-archeological methodology, his practice explores, encodes, and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media and machine learning, treating them as subject matter and medium. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg; Whitney Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Barbican Art Center,London; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.

Evan Moffitt is a writer, journalist, and critic. His work has been featured in publications such as T Magazine, The New York Times, Financial Times, Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, Aperture, 4 Columns, and Frieze, where he was formerly Senior Editor. Moffitt has co-authored books on numerous artists, including Hélio Oiticica, Jack Pierson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Salman Toor. He lives in London, where he is currently a MA candidate in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alex Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Before moving to Pittsburgh, he was a research fellow at Tate, where he led a program of scholarly publications, symposia, and displays focused on the museum’s collection of American art. His book Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s was recently published by the University of California Press.

Cécile Whiting is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita in the Department of Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in the history of American art with a focus on the mid twentieth century about which she has published three books: Antifascism in American Art (Yale, 1989) , A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture (Cambridge, 1997), and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (University of California, 2006). Pop L.A. was awarded the 2009 Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian Institution for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art.

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