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Edward Monovich’s drawings reinterpret idyllic scenes from popular stories, television, and advertising. In mainstream America, concepts such as joy, discovery and exhilaration are cooped by marketing strategies. Experience becomes imprisoned by products, stereotypes and labels. Some Children are marked so indelibly, they cannot venture forth without donning their favourite logo and prefabricated identity. Brands become both filter and lens for one’s point of view. This propagates a mesmerizing cycle of fashion and consumption and an artificial sense of progress. His drawings infiltrate this cycle and attempt to excise experience from commercial shackles.

Unlike protagonists in many ads, his figures confront geopolitical realities where pastoral landscapes are tainted by the presence of hovering drones, landmines, poison ivy, and litter. By combining serene imagery with ubiquitous signs of global crises, he invites participants to contemplate relationships between the American Dream and violence, consumption and poverty. The conflagration of disparate elements generates simultaneity, where cultural contradictions coexist in one suburban backyard, at one time. This slippery place invites exploration of authentic joy through experience, where figures shed their brands and viewers can shed their filters.

These drawings are littered with found objects and candy wrappers. Pre-printed fortunes and sentiments stand-in for the voices of subjects. Spent lottery tickets blend-in with front lawns. The detritus concomitantly reveals the pathos of broken dreams and hope for renewal.

Edward Monovich has exhibited widely in the USA in New York, Miami, Denver and Boston as well as internationally in Italy, Bogota, Columbia, Ghent, Belgium, Newcastle, England.

Buy signed limited edition prints and original artworks by Edward Monovich at Opus Fine Art; the home of Contemporary art.

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Deck the Walls

Give the gift of art this Christmas, and choose from this collection of new, exclusive original postcard-sized works by our artists.

Give the gift of art this Christmas, and choose from this collection of new, exclusive original postcard-sized works by our artists. With each work priced at just £150, inclusive of framing, this new exhibition gives collectors the opportunity to pick the perfect low-priced and highly collectable gift for a loved one.

Artists included in this exciting exhibition are Andrea Allan, Ben Allen, Jonathan Alibone, Kim Baker, Joseph Borzotta, Tanja Boukal, Rachel Louise Brown, Dean Cavanagh, Robin Clare, Tintin Cooper, Bonnie and Clyde, Richard Davidson, Fiona Dean, Dixon (Juan Carlos Noria), Teresa Duck, Michele Fletcher, Magnus Gjoen, Carne Griffiths, Alex Hill, Tony Hull, Joanna Hutton, Nathan James, Brian Jones, Hayden Kays, Chris Kettle, Miranda Lopatkin, Mantis, Alexandra McLain, Josie McCoy, Colin McMaster, Ali Miller, Edward Monovich, Kuzana Ogg, Jamie Paul, Judy Ragagli, Gurpran Rau, sheOne, Clare Shields, Charlotte Stubbs, Lex Thomas, Jacky Tsai and Nicomi Nix Turner.

Join us at the festive opening, on Saturday, 8 December from 12 - 7pm, where we will be serving mulled wine, mince pies and spiced biscuits.

The opening coincides with the Spirit of Stow festival. Stow on the Wold is an enchanting centre of Cotswolds life at any time of year, but never more so than during the festive season. Promising to be a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of High Street shopping, shops in and around the historic market square will offer a host of Christmas gift ideas, festive fashions, gastronomic delights, one of a kind items, art and antiques. Alongside street entertainment and festive fayre from the pubs, tea rooms and restaurants in the town, Santa will be in the square with a live nativity petting zoo, courtesy of Costwold Farm Park's Adam Henson.

Private View: Saturday, 8 December, 12-7pm

Deck the Walls... is open to the public at Opus Fine Art, Martin House, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold GL54 1AA from 8 December to 8 January.

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