Milk Duds

Australian artist Ben Frost is best known for his satirical and often provocative Pop Art mash-up paintings that critique our involvement in consumerist society.

“Product Displacement” is a group exhibition exploring the
invasion of the Media and the Arts by advertising. We’ve all experienced it. You’re reading some devastating breaking news story online, terrorism or racism or fascism, some horrible atrocity, and then the paragraph is broken up by an ad for the newest car or lingerie or dish soap. That was the inspiration for the upcoming group exhibition.

Twenty top New Contemporary artists have created new works to make a post-millennial statement about the “interruption” of the media and arts by the insertion of commercial advertising - much the way Andy Warhol, Mel Ramos and other Pop artists did in the Sixties - by merging the two elements in a bold and substantive way. “Art and commerce affect each other a great deal,” explains artist Eric Joyner. “Billions of (ad) dollars are spent each year trying to get it right.