Opening reception - "Postcard Superhero and other Contemplations" by Mark Mothersbaugh

"Hello! My name is Mark Mothersbaugh, and I consider myself a contemporary social scientist. At least, that was the term we came up with when we were starting Devo back in the early ’70s to avoid the moniker “artist”, though of course, we were. We wanted to distinguish ourselves from much of what passed for “art” at the time, which didn’t resonate with us.

I fell in love with printmaking in my first year at KSU, back in 1968. I printed for almost a decade before touring with Devo made it nearly impossible, but I reignited that love in the mid-’80s when I met Richard Duardo, who had a screen-printing company in the then-industrial wasteland known as Traction Ave, in downtown LA. Whenever I had free time, I would head over there to print my art, eventually building a large body of work, including the silkscreen prints in this current…