Robert Longo

Robert Longo’s works are typically brash and eye catching. He marries the power of photographic and filmic images with large-scale artworks that often escape categorization as strictly painting, sculpture, or media art. As the artist states, “My work exists somewhere between movies and monuments.” Longo explores the importance of images in popular culture and the stereotypical portrayals of the individual’s alienation within a complex society. His aesthetic and conceptual approach came to symbolize the changing landscape of 1980s New York City—with its rapid gentrification, vibrant nightlife, and ascendant stock market.