San Jose Museum of Art runs an exhibition named 'Todd Schorr: American Surreal' through Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California’s cartoon-based movement, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine.
Schorr’s astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by San Jose Museum of Art’s Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.
The picture shows A Pirates Treasure Dream, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 inches, Collection of Long Gone John, Washington, Image courtesy of the artist. -- www.sjmusart.org
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