“Love Monster” by AIKO
Joshua Liner Gallery presents ‘Love Monster’, an exhibition of new mixed media works by the Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based artist AIKO.
As a founding member of the artist collective FAILE, formed in 1999, AIKO was there at the infant stages of this explosion of wheatpastes and stenciling that has modified walls all over the world. In 2006 AIKO decided to go solo and has since taken her collage, stenciling, brushwork, spray paint, and serigraphy to a whole new level in what is her largest solo show to date.
The first feature you will notice about AIKO’s work is her super-saturated style, which is a purposeful direction born from her time spent as a student of Media Studies at New School University in New York. Just as the Joshua Liner Gallery stated, “This bricolage technique perfectly suits AIKO’s eclectic practice—a voracious mash-up of Japanese and American pop culture, including comics, children’s book illustrations, advertising, classic movie posters, and soft-core pornography.”
AIKO continues the beautiful tradition Warhol started by re-processing and reselling the everyday images we take for granted but still have a huge affect upon our perspectives. And also like Warhol, AIKO’s brilliance stems from her unusual synthesis of telling personal experiences through the most shared of all languages, commercial imagery.
“Make Effort, Not War 2″ by AIKO
“Love Monster” runs until May 16th.
posted by: Harold Johns III
Tags: art, design, gallery opening, street art
