The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present Happy Birthday America!, a group exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together a wide-ranging selection of artists, the exhibition offers a focused reflection on the vitality and diversity of American post-war and contemporary art. Spanning movements from assemblage and Pop to conceptual and figurative practices, the exhibition includes works by Billy Apple, Billy Al Bengston, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Roy Ferdinand, Joe Goode, Robert Graham, Jann Haworth, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Robert Mallary, Ed Paschke, Ken Price, Kurt Seligmann, Richard Stankiewicz, Paul Thek, John Tweddle, Robert...
The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present Happy Birthday America!, a group exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together a wide-ranging selection of artists, the exhibition offers a focused reflection on the vitality and diversity of American post-war and contemporary art.
Spanning movements from assemblage and Pop to conceptual and figurative practices, the exhibition includes works by Billy Apple, Billy Al Bengston, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Roy Ferdinand, Joe Goode, Robert Graham, Jann Haworth, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Robert Mallary, Ed Paschke, Ken Price, Kurt Seligmann, Richard Stankiewicz, Paul Thek, John Tweddle, Robert Watts, and Tom Wesselmann.
American art as a site of continual transformation, shaped by shifting cultural, political, and social contexts. This selection of artists engage with wide ranging materials often blurring distinctions between high and low culture, permanence and temporality. Together, their works trace a lineage of innovation that has defined American artistic production in the post-war era.
