We recently installed a fun new art exhibition for one of our longtime clients, the Ricco Maresca Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition, called Pulp Drunk, is a showcase of Mexican Pulp Art– a popular style of cover art in post WWII Mexico that used racy, sensationalized images of violence, crime, or sci-fi scenes in order to entice customers into buying books.
According to a press release from the gallery “These sensationalized images from the sixties and seventies often feature surreal and lurid images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, killers, Zorro and many other icons involving suspense, mystery, romance, and the supernatural.”
We got a close look at all of the dozens of works going into the show when we hung them at the gallery, but here are a few of the ones that really stuck out in our minds:
Untitled (Surprised woman with question mark man), c. 1960-75 tempera on illustration board, 15 x 11 in, 38.1 x 27.94 cm
Untitled (Woman holding pig, cop in pursuit), c. 1960-75 tempera on illustration board, 15 x 11 in, 38.1 x 27.94 cm
Check out the show, on display now though March 7, 2015.