Georgia Straight goes Pop in Paul Wong work at Whistler's Audain Gallery

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      Look beyond the Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol works at the new show at Whistler's Audain Gallery, and you'll see the Georgia Straight featured in prominent pop-style repetition.

      In the Canada Goes Pop portion of the exhibit, which runs till September 17, Paul Wong's 2011 work Cover features a series of four silkscreened prints on newsprint showing the multimedia artist's face on the cover of the Straight.

      The 2011 cover was to celebrate Wong's work being featured in Summer Live, a massive festival in Stanley Park to celebrate Vancouver's 125th anniversary.  

      A detail of Paul Wong's Cover at the Pop show at the Audain Gallery.
      L. Moore

       

      The piece is part of an exhibition that boasts 37 works drawn from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection and organized by that institution's assistant curator, Esther Weng. If you're headed up to Whistler, see more information here.

      The exhibit focuses on the Pop prints of the 1960s, featuring famous work from Warhol's Marilyn Monroe to Robert Indiana's "LOVE" . The Canadian exhibition that complements the Smithsonian show arcs from 1980 to the present, tracking the legacy of Pop north of the 49th parallel.

      Other B.C. names include Sonny Assu, whose cereal boxes that playfully give well-known brands an Indigenous twist, and Shawn Hunt, whose image of a Northwest Coast raven carrying a Warhol-style soup can emblazons T-shirts made specially for the show.

      Now here's a souvenir we really love: Shawn Hunt gives Warhol's soup can a Northwest Coast twist.

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