Pop Alchemy conjures up new show in OKC

Pop Alchemy conjures up new show in OKC

(Oklahoma City, OK) Pop Alchemy presents its debut exhibit and event titledNeon Ourbororos on Saturday, November 15, starting at 7pm at Graphite Elements & Design in the Plaza District.

This event will showcase the original work of Pop Alchemy creator/artist Eric Heckert, as well as a cash bar featuring beer, wine and signature drinks, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, and a retro-underground/alternative soundtrack performed by DJ Jack Acid of Pirate Audio Sound System, a pioneer of the “free tekno” movement in the United States. Admission price is $5.Pop Alchemy prints and merchandise will be available for purchase.

The Saturday event will be preceded by a preview of select works featured in the exhibit at the same location on Friday, November 14, coinciding with the Plaza District’s second Friday “Live on the Plaza” open gallery walk night. A limited inventory of Pop Alchemy prints and merchandise will also be available for purchase.

Eric Heckert established Pop Alchemyin December 2012 for the purpose of designing a highly personalized visual language based on esoteric principles as filtered through a pop surrealist lens.

Pop surrealism, or 'lowbrow' art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comics, the punk music scene, and hot-rod cultures of the street. The pop surrealist movement has been popularized largely due to Juxtapoz magazine, which was created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III, Greg Escalante, and Eric Swenson.

In January of 2014, Heckert was one of 80 artists selected by Juxtapoz co-founder Greg Escalante to participate in the first national juried pop surrealist exhibit at the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art.

For more information regarding Pop Alchemy, Eric Heckert and the Neon Ourbororos show, visit the Pop Alchemy website at www.popalchemy.com, or follow Pop Alchemy on Facebook and Twitter.

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