Blackout

Richard Hamilton

Carlo Mollino

John Stezaker

Gallery Two will feature the group show Blackout. The exhibition draws its name from the broadcast term 'blackout,' which refers to a regulatory ban that prevents the transmission of an event, as well as the notion of 'lost time,' an aberration of dissociative amnesia. The images, sources, and time epochs featured in the works of Carlo Mollino, Richard Hamilton, and John Stezaker echo the optical and chronological anomalies and consequences found in these two notions of blackout. Through a mixture of collage, appropriated image materials, poster wrappings, and other ready-made image sources, the works featured in Blackout reflect, in part, how mass consumer imagery, particularly those using the human figure as a model in advertising for products, films, or a service, can attain the status of 'cultural icon' in collective memory.