Artwork Description
Steve Gianakos – He Launched a New Career as a Photographer
Dimensions: 31.5 x 25.5″ framed / 27 x 21.5″ paper
Year: 2016
Medium: lithograph
Steve Gianakos He Launched a New Career as a Photographer lithograph is offered framed. Printed by Landfall Press in 2016. Since the late 1960s, Steve Gianakos has been merging innocence and prurience, vulgarity and sophistication in his drawings, collages, and acrylic-on-canvas paintings to reveal the absurd mixture of sexuality and anxiety at the heart of the human condition. His works look like vintage cartoons gone awry: he has depicted pigeon-toed little girls with their skirts up; animals in menacing or lascivious scenarios with people; pin-ups pleasuring bird-brained men; and Jesus getting smacked in the face with a pie. Through humor, Gianakos disarms the viewer into submitting to his deliciously dark and subversive vision of the human psyche. His pared-down imagery, composed of outlines and blocks of color, is deceptively simple. His works have been exhibited and collected by museums such as New Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1. This print is signed by the artist.