Pop Art never earned its name by being physically accessible to the masses–though
Andy Warhol once asked a mere $100 per canvas for his soup cans, that wasn’t
so cheap at the time. Now, the market has assured that it remain inaccessible:
while you can see this work in reproduction, and Seattle Art Museum has a few
good examples, particularly of Warhol and Wesslemann’s work, you couldn’t afford
the ’50s and ’60s originals–unless you are one of those lucky bastards with
stock options from Amazon.com, and you’d better
sell those quick before the Nasdaq collapses. I’m getting off my subject: the
new gallery Winston Wächter opens this week with work by Pop artists, or
artists with Pop allegiances, largely made after the Pop Art moment had passed.
A Warhol, a Dine, a Ruscha, a Rauschenberg (mostly work from the ’80s) jostle
each other on the cozy walls of the South Lake Union space, and maybe I still
can’t afford them, but you can, if I’m to believe what I read in this paper’s
demographic research.
Winston Wächter opens Thurs Feb 25, 6-8 pm, 403 Dexter Ave N, 652-5855.