The Lengthy Seaside Museum of Artwork is happy to current Jux founder Robert Williams: Fearless Depictions, a survey exhibition that includes 57 work spanning from 2001 to the current, together with two large-scale sculptures by the enduring Southern California artist. Robert Williams’ epic, cartoon-inspired historical past work draw deeply from American vernacular tradition and its visible slang, utilizing concrete, relatable, and sometimes absurd imagery to ship sharp social commentary.
Raised amid the customized scorching rod scene in New Mexico earlier than relocating to Southern California, Williams immersed himself on the planet of automotive artwork and design. He studied on the Chouinard Artwork Institute, the place he honed his abilities as an illustrator whereas a lot of the artwork world turned towards Summary Expressionism and Conceptualism. His profession started in industrial artwork, together with serving as studio artwork director for Kustom Kulture legend Ed “Massive Daddy” Roth in 1965. By the late Nineteen Sixties, Williams was a founding contributor to the underground ZAP Comix, all of the whereas producing his personal caustic and unapologetic works. In 1994, he based Juxtapoz Artwork & Tradition Journal.
