Mid American

Ed Paschke's 'Mid-America' (1969) belongs to the Chicago Imagist generation that took mass-media icons and distorted them with Day-Glo colour and airbrush sharpness. A smiling game-show host, rendered in acid reds and violets, stares out from a shimmering television field — a biting update of 1960s American pop imagery. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition Venue

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States