Culture Pundits Featured Artist

Barnhart employs humor as a means of persuading the audience to reflect on its own cultural identity. Suggesting the co modification of American identity and myth, a deluded version of the past paraded as achievement. Barnhart grotesquely renders the teenage pageant cowgirl with a muddled palette of red white and blue, like an American flag dragged through the mud and left to rot. A black motorcycle awkwardly floats in the background, an icon of rebellion and freedom. Using painting, sculpture and drawing Barnhart successfully creates a skewed portrait of a nation that is itself in an awkward stage of adolescence. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally in Luxembourg, Australia and the United Kingdom.

To learn more about the artist, visit Grant Barnhart.

Artist's Location: Seattle WA USA.