UNTITLED/SCREEN PRINT, 2017

Screen Print: 14 x 11" Gallery Frame: 14 x 11" Shadowbox Frame: 16 x 13" Ken Kagami repetitively uses the components of well-known cartoon characters in various distortions and manifestations. In this iteration, the artist has fused two together in a way that is clearly inciting of discomfort or displeasure—based on the frowns depicted on the face—to the characters now sharing one body. The overall effect of the image calls into question the agency of the artist and the life of art outside of its creation. With cartoons, for instance, iconography can grow so far beyond its initial inception that to return such an image to the whims of the artist as art, rather than as popular culture, there is a type of exchange of cultural capital that such a work would have to undergo. Kagami knows this well and factors it into his humorous creations. Screen print on Royal Sundance felt ultra white 320M paper Printed in USA 10% of your purchase helps fund art classes for kids Read more about Ken her