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<\/a>Using large-scale canvases, Evans rendered legendary celebrities of celluloid and rock n\u2019 roll fame in high-fructose paint, giving Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dick Clark and their famous contemporaries within an expansive and multi-decade canon of pop culture, music, television, and film a pumped-up, renovated facade. In some cases, Evans worked directly with the subjects themselves, commissioned by record\u00a0labels and film studios, as well as Playboy magazine. The result? Five years\u2019 worth of celebrity pop portraits and Evans, thereby extending his personal milieu from rock musician, to surf artist, to sought-after graphic designer, to the inventor of the \u201cicon narrative.\u201d<\/p>\nMODERNISM: The Art of the Pop Portrait 1984-1989<\/em><\/strong> includes not only the large-scale original paintings within this collective body of work (not seen together since 1989), but also framed and unframed one-of-a-kind signed serigraphs and limited edition prints produced with Duardo himself, the founder of Modern Multiples, who passed away unexpectedly last November. In the 1980\u2019s and \u201990\u2019s, some of these pop portraits were shown at The Hansen Gallery (Beverly Hills), the Zero One Gallery (Los Angeles), and the Merrill Chase Gallery (Chicago).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n See you in the desert, where old- and new-school glamour and sparkling stardust merge with contemporary art and modern architecture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also, don’t forget to check out\u00a0our national touring collection,\u00a0MARILYN: The Lost Photographs of a Hollywood Star<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>as\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>makes its\u00a0<\/strong>Palm Springs debut at\u00a0<\/strong>the Palm Springs Modernism show and sale, Booth #807 at the\u00a0Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs, CA 92262, February 13, 2015\u00a0\u00a0through\u00a0February 16, 2015. \u00a0Get more information<\/a>. \u00a0We hope to see you there.<\/p>\n Sign-up for our\u00a0newsletter<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>and get\u00a0news, updates and special offers<\/p>\n Limited Runs, the premier destination for discovering and buying the best in original vintage posters, print art and fine art photography, continues to add new items to the site every day and each week we feature some of our latest additions of original vintage film, advertising and rock posters, art prints and photography.<\/p>\n Follow Limited Runs on:<\/p>\n The 1980\u2019s was aglow in hyper color, hyper partying, and hyper hedonism, and this reckless and decadent decade paved the proverbial way for new conceptions in music, art, architecture, and social culture, stretching the considered norms into something altogether new. From 1984-1989 (pre-T.A.Z. times), the artist Jim Evans diverged from his more esoteric influences and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/8969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Along with Richard Duardo, the ingenious printmaker referenced as \u201cthe Warhol of the West,\u201d Evans masterfully created these super stylized pop portraits, adorned with collages, scribbles, hand-drawn patterns and sweeping arcs. This version of visual, indelible \u201cmanifestos for the overstimulated\u201d (Evans\u2019s words) were like the emboldened stepsisters to Warhol\u2019s seminal portraits. Unlike Warhol, whom he describes as desirous of \u201cemptying out imagery,\u201d Evans was
\ncompelled to \u201cupgrade the image.\u201d And upgrade he did, using a fearlessly hued palette of cosmic fuchsia, fireball orange, otherworldly green, solar yellow, and extraterrestrial blues. Throughout his artistic career, Evans\u2019s artwork, whether it\u2019s original concert posters produced for Green Day, The Ramones, the Beastie Boys, a Tibetan Freedom tour, or these Neo-pop portraits of cultural idols, consistently includes audacious colors and overlaid, elaborate illustrations \u2013 these elements connect his work throughout the decades.<\/p>\n<\/a>Palm Springs\u2019 Gallery 446 is showing this collection of pop portraits during the much-anticipated Modernism Week, as the vivid nature of this work complements the inherently dazzling and star-studded city of Palm Springs. Curated by art consultant Eddie Donaldson, MODERNISM: The Art of the Pop Portrait 1984-1989<\/em><\/strong> opens on Saturday, February 7th and is on view until March 8th and if you want to meet the artist himself and delve into his multifarious mind, Jim Evans will be at Gallery 446 on the evening of February 14th for the artist reception.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nFor lovers of Vintage Posters, Photography and Art — Limited Runs!<\/em><\/h4>\n
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