peter mars

peter mars has been the leader of chicago's avant pop movement for
the past twenty years. combining avante-guarde innovation with a
deep pop art sensibility, mars fuses and confuses the traditional
distinctions between high culture and low-art. the artist's sensibilities
fall somewhere between dada and pop. "in that area where nonsense
and popular culture so frequently meet."
using the joy and nostalgia that can be found in everyday objects.
mars explores american culture, the passage of time and the icons
that each period adopts as its own. much of mars' work reflects the
pop culture of his childhood in the 60's and 70s. notably the idealized
american family, comic book figures, and space age invention. peter
mars began collecting at an early age, match packs, comic books,
baseball cards, arrowheads coins, and later old gas station signs.
rather than striving to compile exhaustive collections, mars sought
separate images of beauty, small treasures that tell the story of
american popular culture.

forever young 30 x 22

lasso of truth 30 x 40

holy exclamation point 30 x 40