Cadillac Jack, 2023 (Poster)

Dimensions:24h x 18w in Exhibition poster for: Alic Brock'Cadillac Jack'August 19 → September 23, 2023DTLA   Alic Brock’s practice is an irreverent but loving interrogation of painting as it stands at the crossroads of technological innovation. Through his medium-to-large scale, photorealist paintings, the Atlanta-based artist transmutes the sensibilities of today’s digital life—it’s over-stimulation, its obsession with celebrity—while underscoring its inherent superficiality and strangeness. “Your brain does interesting things when it’s confronted by something that might appear to be about new technologies but has the physicality of something that has been around for a long time,” says Brock (b. 1992 Dayton, Ohio) of his paintings. “And I’m really interested in how those two things can live side-by-side, a digital image and a painting.”Brock’s subject matter has generally featured sports legends (Labron James, Michael Jordan, Muhammed Ali) and pop stars (Elvis Presley, Billie Eilish,