June 14, 2011

Bang! Thwack! Plop!

Comics: an Influence on Contemporary Art

June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012

Art and comics have a complex relationship. This exhibition explores that relationship by featuring the intersection of comics and art with specific attention on how certain themes and stylistic forms have crossed over from the genre of comics into the world of visual art. Many professional artists have drawn and/or published comics and even worked in a cartoon style while others have used actual comics as material for their assemblages or collages. The exploding popularity of comics, mostly through animation and graphic novels, shows us that the graphic, or comic, impulse has become a compelling means of artistic communication. Bang! Thwack! Plop! points toward a growing interdisciplinary trend in the arts that allows for a flow of ideas between media and form, creating a liberation of high art. This exhibition opened in mid June of 2011 and is on display in the museum's upper gallery with the official opening reception held on October 31st, 2011.

A comic style bubble cloud with the words "Bang! Thwack! Plop!"
Bang! Thwack! Plop!
Comics: an Influence on Contemporary Art
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An exhibition area with "Codex Canibalius Insulae" on the wall
A large abstract composition sculpture
An exhibition room with a white display table in the middle
A black and white art piece of a whale
Art pieces on a wall with spotlights on them
A wall with art pieces on a gray wall
A space in the exhibition space an abstract sculpture on a display table
An exhibition space with a portrait of Smokey the bear shaking hands with a woman
Crane pulleys and hooks
An abstract teapot with antique characters
Modified war tanks with nets in the air
A wall length art piece on the wall and glass shadow tables in the middle
Abstract human figures back to back
Blue shapes with an orange background
A vase with a comic of a policeman and ghost
A panoramic collage of of old comics