Pop Surrealism Exhibition

Joey Potts

Recently I was at an exhibition that a local artist's guild was putting on.  It was a group show called Deviant Pop with five artists represented.  According to the guild's newsletter the exhibit was filled with Lowbrow art.  "Lowbrow art, according to Wikipedia, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music, and hot-rod cultures of the street. It has a sense of humor, often being gleeful, impish, or sarcastic."  Lowbrow art, also called Pop Surrealism, is not collected by museums or represented by galleries as much as what could be considered "fine art."  For me, the art displayed took creativity, ingenuity, skill and talent, it was indeed fine art.  Enjoy!