"All the Howard Sterns Represents You"
Kayrock and Wolfy
American
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.
Medium
Screenprint with ink additions
Dimensions
composition and sheet (irreg.): 25 x 19" (63.5 x 48.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
General Print Fund
Accession
1260.2008.3
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
