POSE has always taken pop-culture out of context. He cuts and pastes elements together, creating seemingly familiar compositions but somehow new. It's like graffiti; it changes a place or something familiar into a refreshing re-interpretation. Above & Beyond, his new series of works that will be on view at Chin's Gallery in Bangkok, expands and contracts with restraint and overstimulation, where he cuts out elements to create almost minimal pop art, and then brings back the elements into dense works later on in the show.
The results are mixture of starkness and overwhelming color scapes. Like how Roy Lichtenstein could literally draw a line that was unmistakably his, because his ability to create absence with color and shapes was so palpable, POSE is channeling that talent. He leaves parts out now, and those parts are somehow ever-more present. A fantastic new direction for the artist. —Evan Pricco
