Dean Mars
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Wood Panel, Newsprint, Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Newsprint, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
Antique Early 19th Century Books
Gold Leaf
People Also Browsed
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Carrara Marble
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Late 20th Century North American Bohemian Sofas
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century American Empire Table Lamps
Metal, Gold
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
2010s Italian Industrial Contemporary Art
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Prints
Screen, Paper
Late 20th Century American Classical Animal Sculptures
Marble, Bronze
Antique 17th Century French Baroque Prints
Paper
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Acrylic
Vintage 1960s Photography
Paper
Late 20th Century American Classical Animal Sculptures
Marble, Bronze
Late 20th Century American Modern Swivel Chairs
Metal, Chrome
20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Malachite, Metal, Chrome, Berlin Iron
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Recent Sales
1990s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Alabaster
Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Resin, Mixed Media, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Panel
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Panel
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Newsprint, Wood Panel, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic, Mixed Media
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Juxtaposing the faces of iconic celebrities with patterns reminiscent of quilting and folk art, Robert Mars (b. 1969) considers the many facets of American popular culture through the lens of advertising.
In Mars’s mixed-media works, brand names are collaged beneath the visages of mid-century stars such as Elvis, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, with neon lighting and shiny coats of resin on wood panels lending each piece the allure of a covetable consumer object.
Born in New Jersey, Mars studied at the Parsons School of Design and worked for a time as a graphic designer. His cultural mash-ups draw on imagery from his collection of vintage magazines. Combining enlarged Xerox transfers and boldly painted colors in several built-up layers, his works recall the messy remixing of everyday objects by Robert Rauschenberg as well as the explorations of mass reproduction and fame by Andy Warhol. The shape of a Chanel No. 5 bottle, a Louis Vuitton logo and a photograph of Audrey Hepburn are all plucked from mass media as relics of Americana and the obsession with luxury. Distressing the surfaces of the pieces, Mars gives them a timeworn texture, like an old advertisement that might be found on the wall of a roadside gas station, but with a surreal quality in their recontextualized subjects.
The stars and mass-media material in Mars’s work mostly have origins in the 1950s and ’60s, an age that saw the rise of celebrity endorsements during a postwar economic boom in which there were plenty of novel new products to promote. An image of Jackie Kennedy is overlaid with ad copy for Dior; a photograph of a victorious Muhammad Ali is joined with Champion Spark Plugs typography. The nostalgia here is for commerce as much as it is for people who became a brand. In the artist’s dynamic collages, the lines between what, or who, is being packaged and sold are blurred.
Mars has produced commissions for Coca-Cola, was a featured artist for a project with Kari Whitman Interiors and was chosen in 2015 for the cover of Neiman Marcus’s May Book. He has exhibited at the Evansville Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art and elsewhere.
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