Econo-can by Edward and Nancy Kienholz at Hood
Museum of Art, New Hampshire

22 August – 6 December 2015

The Hood Museum of Art presents a group exhibition featuring the collection of Trevor Fairbrother, an independent curator, and John T. Kirk, a scholar of early American decorative arts, who have donated important works in their collection to the museum. Titled Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, the exhibition features historical works by a distinguished group of artists, including Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s Econo-can (1984).

Often a blatant critique of American civilization, Kienholz works, like Econo-can, point to the media, consumerism, cultural tragedies, wars and violence, and our relationships to them. Television sets, machines, and objects enabling the consumption and propagation of violence are recurring motifs that embody Kienholz’s social criticism towards the shadow side of American culture at the time. 

Other artists include: Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, Glenn Ligon, Carl Andre, Mike Kelley, Robert Wilson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Richard Artschwager, Tom Wesselmann, Joseph Beuys, Catherine Opie, Elizabeth Peyton, Sol LeWitt, John O'Reilly, John Singer Sargent, and many others.

The
Hood Museum of Art
4 E Wheelock St,
Hanover, NH 03755

Visit the museum’s website for more details: http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2015collectingandsharing/

IMAGE: Ed and Nancy Kienholz ‘Econo-can’ (1984), mixed media
assemblage. Source image courtesy of Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH