"All the Howard Sterns Represents You"

Kayrock and Wolfy

2007

A 2007 screenprint with ink additions that uses the look of advertising and a celebrity name to challenge how representation in mass media addresses—and implicates—individual viewers.

You’re struck by the large, black capitals “REPRESENTS YOU” set against a dizzying field of concentric blue lines, topped by a casual, hand-lettered “all the Howard Sterns,” which flips a commercial address into a pointed, ironic accusation.

Combining poster aesthetics, bold typography, and hand-drawn annotation, the piece continues a tradition in contemporary printmaking of using familiar commercial forms to critique celebrity culture, spectatorship, and the limits of seeing oneself through media.

Palette

Exhibitions

American Prints, 1960–1985

1987

Committed to Print

1988

Pop Art Prints, Drawings, and Multiples

1970

Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works

1976