New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art

New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art explores the artists behind the Modern art movement. Robert Williams, Anthony Ausgang, Isabel Samaras, Shag, Shepard Fairey, Tim Biskup are just a few of the contemporary artists involved. What traits, other than a title, do these artists have in common? Are they inspired by the world around them or perhaps nostalgic about their youth or adolescence? Is their artwork fantasy or a response to our hyper-paced world? Whatever it may be, their work is visible. You have seen it. You probably just don't know it.

Young collectors have begun to snatch up art work since the early nineties, artwork that doubles in price every year. Older, more established collectors have begun to catch on, bringing the art in to higher price ranges.

In the same vein as 1983's Style Wars this film examines art and the culture of its time. With the eye of a knowing insider it penetrates the minds of the makers, sneaks behind the curtain and into the smoky backrooms and dusty parlors of the once unknown low brow artist. With interviews, photographs, and video all masterfully combined through motion graphics and charged by a soundtrack created by these very artists musical doppelgangers the film aims to capture the zeitgeist of the movement as it rises from underground to mainstream.

Simmering underground for the last 30 years this, this art has managed to simultaneously remain visible, popular and under the radar of all the art world forces that are often responsible for destroying the very movement they so often create. The artists' work can be found on gallery walls, trendy shops, comic books, posters, movies and on the buildings of our cities. It is Tiki, it is urban, it is fine art, it is graffiti, it is surreal, it is illustrative, it is modern art. With inspirations like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, R. Crumb, and Robert Williams and contemporaries such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Shag, and Camille Rose Garcia whatever you want to call it New Brow, Low Brow, or Pop Surrealism its here and its not going anywhere.