Alake Shilling: The Hippest Trip in America by Shilling, Alake (9781737599821) | Browns Books
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Alake Shilling: The Hippest Trip in America : By Land, Air and Sea

Shilling, Alake(By (artist))Kennedy, Kidogo K(Text by)Levy-Lucero, Grant(Text by)Nazif, Perwana(Text by)Owens, Laura(Text by)Angiolini, Viola(Edited by)
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The art of Alake Shillings offers a colorful nostalgic romp through childhood iconographyIn the paintings and sculptures of Los Angeles–based artist Alake Shilling (born 1993), cutesy characters and plush creatures travel through a saturated world where disco and Lisa Frank aesthetics collide, often in a grassy knoll or ocean swell.

Indeed, Shilling derives much inspiration from her childhood obsession with Frank and the design style of after-school crafts—imagery that connotes comfort and innocence.

Unlike the works of Frank, however, Shilling’s painted characters contain imperfections, a sense of vulnerability and weariness that adults know all too well. In The Hippest Trip in America: By Land, Air and Sea, the artist’s works are paired with her source material, and texts by artists and writers Laura Owens, Kidogo Kennedy, Perwana Nazif and Grant Levy-Lucero are interspersed throughout.

In a delightful nod to Frank, a sticker sheet insert is included on the back cover of the book.

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Product Details
Pacific/Jeffrey Deitch
1737599821 / 9781737599821
Hardback
13/07/2023
United States
128 pages, 78 Illustrations
197 x 248 mm

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