Made All of This, Akiko Stehrenberger
Show Gallery is pleased to present Made All of This, a solo exhibition of new mixed media paintings, movie posters, sculptures and drawings by Los Angeles-based artist Akiko Stehrenberger.
Made All of This is an exhibit that shows both the professional and the personal work of Stehrenberger over almost two decades. If you’ve caught a glimpse of a promotional movie poster in the last 16 years, chances are you were taking in the work of Stehrenberger, the artist you didn’t know you knew. Her greatest asset is her versatility, making her a chameleon of mediums. Whether celebrating, respecting, or playfulling satirizing the subject, the underlying connective tissue in all of her work is that her concept is the catalyst for how the piece is executed. This exhibit will capture what she has so skillfully harvested from her imagination so far while also celebrating the release of her first book, entitled Akikomatic: The Work of Akiko Stehrenberger published by Hat & Beard Press.
Akiko Stehrenberger is a 15-time CLIO Award-winning movie poster illustrator and designer, who works with directors, movie studios as well as movie and advertising agencies respectively. Stehrenberger was deemed the “Poster Girl” by Interview Magazine a decade ago, and that title has only become more apt since. Vanity Fair included her Funny Games and Kiss of the Damned posters in their “Best Movie Posters of All Time” list. Her "Da 5 Bloods" is on view at the Academy Motion Pictures Museum, and her book is available at the museum's curated gift shop.
Stehrenberger studied illustration and design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
