Post Times

About the Presentation
Frank Gaard will make his New York debut in a solo presentation with Post Times, a first-time exhibitor at Independent. Gaard (b. 1944) is one of the most important artists in Minnesota, having presented survey exhibitions at the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Gaard is known for his brash personality and idiosyncratic art practice, using a vibrant, sometimes acrid palette, offering up satire through imagery derived from art history, his intellectual and political obsessions, bipolar disorder, and relationships, skewering pop culture excesses as well as academic and art world elitism. From 1974 to 1994, Gaard published and distributed the incendiary underground art magazine, Artpolice, which was founded as a response to the Nixon presidency and was a protest to the cultural repression of the time and featured a mix of political commentary, absurdism, humor, Dadaist attitudes.