BALISTRERI, MAGGIE
POPagandist, billboard bandit, post-pop pundit, post-punk prankster, countercultural cartoonist, subvertising executive, culture-jammer. the artist with his finger on the pulse card of the nation. ron English takes on the icons of pop culture and puts a little "english" on them. A robin Hood of Madisson Ave., Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its popular visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly on his hundredsof pirated billboards.Ron exists as a pop cultureanomaly, somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and grown-up, real life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customizedimagery laden with strong socio-polical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive pop-culture savvy, and Dali meets Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the diddactic approach to art and life, Ron has offered up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there`s always room for a little good-natured fun.
