US Artist Greg Gossel work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process that simultaneously features and condemns popular culture.

Gossel has deconstructed scores of images from old Marvel and DC stories, fragmenting and then re-assembling them into new panels. The costumes may have had a major colour refresh, but the characters themselves have the faded quality of old billboards – these once invulnerable icons are feeling the effects of time, prompting Gossel’s work to ask what, if anything, lies beneath the surface. Numerous layers of spray paint, silkscreen ink and collage battle for attention as the figures battle each other in a chaotic landscape of the artist’s creation.