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What started as an unconventional diary, is now exactly what the title of
this show suggests, a full-on invasion. The artist's own personal archives
alone contain over 25,000 postcards. Mothersbaugh, a member of the quirky
80's band DEVO, started creating equally quirky postcards in his downtime as
something to share with friends. Mothersbaugh now wants to share these
postcards with a worldwide audience. Humorous and telling, Mothersbaugh's
cards are both a personal diary and a cultural commentary. The prints in
the exhibition are scanned from original postcard sketches, and then
embellished and distorted with text, photographs, and other additions, such
as plastic googly eyes. Layered both in images and concept, the cards are
eye catching and thought provoking. Mothersbaugh's art is not only, as he
puts it "about getting affordable artwork into the hands and homes of first
time art buyers," but also about sharing an intriguing look at our cultural
environment by way of Mothersbaugh's own visual culture.
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