Untitled (Community Holiday Festival) Empire Considering ornamentation as an affirmation

Considering ornamentation as an affirmation of life

He employed methods associated with the action painting techniques of Abstract Expressionism

Cornell University

the artist was also commissioned to create an 80ft mosaic titled

In celebration of Summer for the City

Untitled (Community Holiday Festival) Empire Considering ornamentation as an affirmationJoe Zucker (b. 1941, Chicago, IL) created this image to commemorate the 9th Annual Community Holiday Festival at Lincoln Center in 1979. "High key, even gaudy, color has been a consistent characteristic of Joe Zucker's work. The bright color, together with the prosaic subject matter, evokes an amusement park sensibility a world of cotton candy, colored popcorn. Without denying the joyous, humorous, or even the kitsch quality of his work, Zucker