ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture August 28, 2010

Artist Marcel Duchamp believed that "the viewer was a co-partner in the creative process" and utilized irony and humor in his works to give the viewer an access point. 'ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture' will explore a selection of contemporary artists from the Gallery's Permanent Collection who incorporate humor and appropriation into their artmaking. "Appropriation" refers to the artistic tradition of "adopting, borrowing, recycling or sampling aspects of visual culture" such as ideas, advertising symbols, media, forms, or styles taken from other cultures, time-periods, or artists.