Long-time artist Edward Goettler is having a one-man show of his work at the Masley Art Gallery beginning Friday, July 17. The show titled, “An American Art Experience,” continues through Sept. 4, 2009.
“The farther west we drove, the more Pop everything we looked on the highways. Suddenly we all felt like insiders because even though Pop was everywhere-that was the thing about it, most people still took it for granted, whereas we were dazzled by-it-to-us, it was the new Art. Once you “got” Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. I was lying on the mattress in the back of our station wagon looking up at the lights and wires and telephone poles zipping by, and the stars and the blue-black sky, and thinking – I didn’t ever want to live anyplace where you couldn’t drive down the road and see drive-ins and giant ice cream cones and walk-in hotdogs and motel signs flashing.”
– Andy Warhol, Driving with friends from N.Y. to Hollywood in the fall of 1963
The exhibit attempts to express Goettler’s reflections on some of the most important occasions of his American Art Experience including events that have caused great hope, joy and concern for the future of this great nation. Many of Goettler’s works are expressed as icons, symbols on occasions of great and or great concern, and many noteworthy for the shear folly and joy of the experience.