TIME ZONES: JAMES ROSENQUIST AND PRINTMAKING AT THE MILLENNIUM

FEBRUARY 13, 2016 - MAY 15, 2016

James Rosenquist, a pioneering Pop artist who first earned his living as a billboard painter, came of age in the booming economy of post-World War II America. Finding his subject matter in the detritus of consumer culture and the remnants of everyday images, his idiosyncratic visual language is one saturated in the American vernacular. Rosenquist's imagery is dense, compacted, eccentric, and often hard to decipher. His implausible juxtapositions, strident Day-Glo colors, and seemingly discordant couplings often bombard the viewer.

For an artist whose career has spanned more than seven decades, time is an apt topic. With the Deutsche Guggenheim project The Swimmer in the Econo-mist as a touchstone, Time Zones traces this evolution and exchange of ideas and motifs across media into the present day. Although Rosenquist will deny any chronology or linear narratives in his work, The Swimmer in the Econo-mist is a history painting of our time-a summation of the past and one steeped in optimism for the future. At the intersection of two centuries, this series afforded the artist the opportunity to reflect back upon the twentieth century while looking forward into the twenty-first. Time Zones examines Rosenquist's late career-from his visual inventions to innovations in painting and printmaking-and its continuing impact.

An audio guide by John Hutcheson, master printer and instructor of printmaking at UNF, accompanies the exhibition.

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Judy Eisen, Scottie and Winfield Gartner, Todd Sack and Barbara Sharp