In LSD Worldpeace Roberts’ earliest work welcomes us into the psychedelic journey with nostalgic references to films, comics, toys, logos, branding, and countercultural objects like ouija boards, sci-fi, aliens, and UFOs. Protective guardians of childhood guide us through our journey, for Joe, that’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mickey Mouse in Disney’s Fantasia.
Texts by Myla DalBesio and Matthew Ronay contextualize the work, deciphering and decoding meanings, talismans, and signifiers, leading the way through Roberts’ transportive body of work and its unique language.
Anthology Editions is pleased to announce the reissue of celebrated San Francisco-based artist Joe Roberts’ 2015 title LSD Worldpeace, available worldwide on May 18, 2023. Texts by Myla DalBesio and Matthew Ronay contextualize the work, deciphering and decoding meanings, talismans, and signifiers, leading the way through Roberts’ transportive body of work and its unique language.
Roberts is known for revealing, surreal, and hallucinatory paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works, often referencing art brut or Naïve traditions of artmaking. Shapes, colors, phantasmagoric scenes, and mystic symbolism combine in worlds of cavernous hallways, catacombs, and the sky. Time distorts, bends, and even stops, as we are ushered through a journey of his creative psyche.
In LSD Worldpeace Roberts’ earliest work welcomes us to the psychedelic journey with nostalgic references to films, comics, toys, logos, branding, and countercultural objects like ouija boards, sci-fi, aliens, and UFOs. Protective guardians of childhood, the icons of pop culture, guide us through our journey in recurring roles throughout the book, taking on new depth and meaning with every appearance. Personal mementos, diary entries, doodles, and confessional trip reports, add to Roberts’ formative process of searching for transformation, meaning, and the rituals of creating art.
Joe Roberts is an artist and illustrator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, he later studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Known for his work with found objects, Roberts creates mixed media pieces, collages, and paintings that create an ever-changing surreal world. His much sought-after work has been shown in notable galleries including Slow Culture in Los Angeles and Marlborough Gallery in New York. He’s published three books and currently lives and works in San Francisco.
Myla DalBesio is an American multi-disciplinary visual and performance artist. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1987, she studied Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently based in New York City. Her work is greatly influenced by the examination of traditional and sexual femininity, mystical nature, and the place where the two meet.
Matthew Ronay was born in 1976 in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art before earning his Masters in Fine Arts from Yale University in 2000. Drawing on traditions of folk and pre-avant-garde art, as well as surrealism, mythology, and psychedelia, Ronay has developed a distinct artistic style that draws viewers in with its playfulness and then unveils a deeper, more multidimensional reality. He has exhibited at numerous institutions around the world and participated in the 2013 Lyon Biennale and the 2004 Whitney Biennial. He is based in New York.
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$40.00 (US) £38.00/ €40.00 (EU)
ISBN: 9781944860547
PREORDER DATE April 14, 2023
RELEASE DATE May 16, 2023
