Julia Wachtel Appropriates Nostalgic Cartoons for "HELPP" Exhibition

Seminal American artist Julia Wachtel is currently the focus of a new exhibition entitled "HELPP" at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. Wachtel is widely-recognized for her mixed-media artworks that spotlight visuals of movie stars, pin-up girls, political figures, and other pop culture ephemera. The artist was part of the Pictures Generation movement that emerged in the early-1980s in New York City; a collective of interdisciplinary artists including Barber Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prin...