Biography
My art mainly represents contemporary culture via pop art; I embrace our materialistic nature, which often defines who we are.
Throughout my art career I have had a fascination with what makes an icon, a celebrity, a hero, and if these people even have to be real. Contemporary cultural figures represent an ideal, a hope and a want, they teach us something, be it Buffy the Vampire Slayer, redefining the status of the feminist in today’s society, or Spider-man, “with great power must come great responsibility”.
By embracing and recognizing and sometimes admitting that these figures influence us, we therefore become a part of what they stand for.
My paintings in their very essence are post modern, they are not at all about themselves, but about the world outside the “Art world”, they change meaning and worth depending on who views them. I overtly borrow techniques and styles from the history of art, openly admitting and showing off these influences instead of covering them up with values of the “Original”. I believe in art, as everything else in the world, the only way you know where something is going is if you know where it has been. - Stephen Quick
