Product Placement

Product Placement – Dave Pollot
Original Oil on Thrift Painting

He discribes his process of work:

“I find discarded prints and paintings (ones you may have inherited from great grandma and brought to your local donation bin), and make additions. Sometimes I paint monsters, other times zombies, and most times some pop culture reference- Star Wars, Futurama, Ghostbusters, Mario Brothers…the list goes on. I use oil paints and do my best to match the style of the original artist. My hope is to take these out of the trash can and into a good home; full-circle- from a print that proudly hung on your Grandma’s wall, to a painting that proudly hangs on yours.”

Discarded oil painting with painted over in addition
Artist’s website, his works on Instagram @davepollotart

He also writes: “Painting has always been something of a hobby to me, but it wasn’t until I started repurposing thrift art in 2012 that I did it with any real consistency.  The idea actually began as a joke between my wife (who loves to shop at thrift stores) and I, but it quickly evolved into an attempt to answer a question:  Could I take a piece of unwanted art, and without changing its aesthetic, change its meaning by painting into it some bit of pop culture/nostalgia and make it desirable in the modern world?  Since that time, I’ve also started to explore a number of more personal themes in my work.”

His favorite themes are movie parodies, television parodies, horror parodies, old market expansion series, video game parodies and surrealist art.

For Freedoms

“Since the end of our inaugural #50StateInitiative, we have been reflecting on the multitude of experiences we all shared over the past few months. For us, the most important victory was all that we were able to do it together. It is in this spirit of collective action that we invite you to reflect with us on the Thanksgiving holiday”

Thanksgiving dinner 1
Thanksgiving dinner 2

For Freedoms is a collective of artists, institutions & organizations across the US activating innovative pathways to civic participation.

Human After All

Human After All – The everyday life through the circulatory system

A collaboration between photographer Jan Kriwol and digital artist Markos Kay that depicts people in the context of everyday life through their circulatory systems. The project highlights the fragility and vitality of the human body juxtaposed against the backdrop of urban architecture.

Human's cicualtory system in front of a burger and a coke

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