Lichtenstein’s wall-mounted enamel-on-steel relief sculpture is based on an illustration in a popular comic book focused on World War II
imbuing the familiar motto with a sense of cinematic tension that oscillates between past and present
the phrase’s mix of fonts both augments its nostalgia for midcentury aesthetics and renders its otherwise everyday language poetic and strange
embedded in the bookshelves
Richard Prince: High Times Abby Bangser Lichtenstein’s wall-mounted enamel-on-steel relief sculptureThis poster featuring Untitled (201718) was produced in 2018, in conjunction with Richard Prince: High Times at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Describing the new series from which this painting is drawn, Roberta Smith writes in the New York Times, All told, it forms a rabbit hole of cross references, a hall of mirrors that irregularly reflect some of the life, times, and inner thoughts of an artist given to mixing fact and fiction, one who is a