National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, KY, USA
Until end of 2024
“LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting” is a traveling museum exhibition comprised of over 55 paintings by nearly 15 of today’s realists and hyperrealists who specialize in automobiles and motorcycles as their primary subject of choice. LUSTER will be in residence at the National Corvette Museum until the end of 2024.
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, cars and motorcycles have not only been ubiquitous on the nation’s streets and highways, but also in film, top forty hits, and in painting. With the emergence of photo-realism in the 1960’s, motor vehicles assumed a special place of distinction as subject matter in the iconography of American art.
For this exhibition mixing art and automobiles, the works of art will be juxtaposed with Corvettes, motorcycles and other automotive icons that served as inspiration for the work. The Corvette Museum will be home to a 1937 Cord 812, on loan from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, Indiana.
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