Lowbrow

At that time, there were only about 5 galleries in the world catering to a subversive new art movement tongue-in-cheekly called "Lowbrow", while ten years later there are almost too many to count, with a "Lowbrow/Pop Surrealist" gallery in almost every major city in the US and many major european cities.

Boing Boing 2008

(The "Lowbrow" moniker has since morphed into the term "Pop Surrealism" after the publication and success of the book "Pop Surrealism" published in 2004 by Last Gasp Books (selling 20,000 copies at last count) that Anderson compiled and edited.)

Boing Boing 2008

i misread Lowblow as "Lowbrow", which would have been more clever, in addition to being wholly appropriate.

BADROCK #1 Image Comics, 1995 David Campbell 2007

Several of his works were included in a national survey of Lowbrow painters at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center in Florida along with Mark Ryden, Chaz Bojorquez, Kenny Scharf, Anthony Ausgang and others.

Boing Boing 2009

"From our little gallery in Los Angeles with a handful of artists, it all bloomed: there are now hundreds of galleries all over the world and literally thousands of artists working under the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism banner."

Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

"From our little gallery in Los Angeles with a handful of artists, it all bloomed: there are now hundreds of galleries all over the world and literally thousands of artists working under the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism banner."

Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

"From our little gallery in Los Angeles with a handful of artists, it all bloomed: there are now hundreds of galleries all over the world and literally thousands of artists working under the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism banner."

Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

"From our little gallery in Los Angeles with a handful of artists, it all bloomed: there are now hundreds of galleries all over the world and literally thousands of artists working under the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism banner."

Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

Lowbrow gloom, sometimes veering over into self-contempt, is easy to find just by turning on the TV.

America the Miserable 2010

Sweeney Lawless is a writer/performer whose work appears in the upcoming Any Body's Guess (Andrews McMeel, 2010) and The Lowbrow Reader Anthology (Drag City, 2011) She is also a producer for KEVIN GEEKS OUT.

The ULTIMATE guide to ELEKTRO the Moto-Man, essay by M. Sweeney Lawless Kevin Maher 2010