Beautiful Variety

This August, Arcadia Contemporary hosts its annual Five and Under exhibition. Currently in its eighth year, the exhibition features nearly 200 exceptional works by both emerging and established artists from around the world—all priced at $5,000 or less.

Artwork within the show runs the gamut of what Arcadia Contemporary has to offer, from figurative works and portraiture to still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes and more.

Steven Rosendale’s Cadillac Motel washes over you with a wave of nostalgia. “With Cadillac Motel, I use what I call ‘second-hand imagery.’ It is a re-imagined vintage postcard,” he says. “Growing up in Australia in the 1980s, we only had three main television stations, and all they could afford to play was constant reruns of shows and movies from the 1960s, so I grew up really believing that the outside adult world was going to look and feel like the ’60s even though it was the 1980s. When I finally did reach adulthood and found the world was, of course, nothing like I had seen on TV, I had this nostalgia or longing for that once imagined world. So my only access to the 1960s is to use images from television, movies and advertisements, etc. to recreate the world as I thought it would be in my art.”