July 4 through 31
by Chris Bopst
Austin Fitch has a serious Roy Lichtenstein obsession. The Richmond musician, painter and muralist draws much of his inspiration from the pop artist’s mixed-media representations, but he fuses Lichtenstein’s template with the controlled chaos of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionism and the graffiti art featured in Manfred Kirchheimer’s 1981 documentary, “Stations of the Elevated.” The results are his historically based, 21st-century paintings.…[ Read more ]
