Michael Pybus
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"Nurse Painting"
Signed Michael Pybus and dated 2016 on verso. Acrylic on aluminum particle paint on canvas 150 x 120 cm.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the present owner.
Exhibitions
Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, "Michael Pybus", 7 April 2016 - 15 May 2016.
More information
British, b. 1982, Darlington, United Kingdom, based in London, United Kingdom.
Michael Pybus hijacks capitalist brands and icons as a means to create an instant ‘relationship’ with the audience. They may not know his work, but everyone knows and has a relationship with brands and icons such as IKEA and Pikachu (love/hate or indifference). Pybus processes this iconography through collage and painting to allow his source material to deviate into new readings and narratives. Through doing so, Michael lays claim to mass market iconography linking it to his own brand as an artist, transforming the globally generic into the customized and autobiographical.
Recent shows took place at Tatjana Pieters Ghent, BE; it’s that gallery Kentucky, USA; Tatjana Pieters Ghent, BE ; LUNGLEY London; Palma, Mallorca Spain; Amor, Mexico City, MX; Depart Foundation LA, USA; The Cabin LA, USA; Jonathan Hopson Gallery Houston, USA; Carl Kostyál, Stockholm