PX (C)

PROFILE | INVENTORY

INTRODUCTION

Px(c) is the corporate alter-ego of Montreal artist Ben Depelteau. It first appeared in the 1999 painting You never know when you’ll need Px(c), as a car parts brand name. Px(c) has been known, over the years, to mimic advertising strategies to sell dysfunctional products and ideas to people. Its catalogue includes car parts, eyes, fingers, tongues, sunglasses, do-it-yourself art, concepts for gallery art, mouse traps, packages and some collages and prints.

By presenting himself as the corporate entity, Px(c), Depelteau makes a cultural statement about the dominance of commercial culture in everyday life.

His work is a hybrid of American and British Pop Art.

UPDATE-October 2007
Px (c) at CCV Galleries
Px (c) is showing a series of large earlier paintings at CCV Galleries. Check them out at 119 Pearl Street in Burlington, Vermont.

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