NORTH DAKOTA ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION
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Mack Schroer

Pop Cars
Mixed Media
October 2020 - September 2021

Artist Statement

"It started as a scribble of Homer Simpson on a daily-log sheet at a salt-water-disposal during a February snow flurry in northwest North Dakota as an oil-field trucker. The computer-log was down and I resorted to a hand-kept ledger on Keller's Daily Logs with etch-a-sketch lines cityscaping between 'off duty, on duty and driving.' The lines soon called for a portrait of Homer and the seed of Pop Cars was planted. 

The idea evolved - pop culture figures who get down behind the wheel. A Mack Titan stolen from the depths of Hell...Michigan, a time-traveling Delorean, a San-Fran hill-hoping Ford Mustang 390 epitomizing counter-culture cool, or the Renaissance Man's ornithopter gliding along the current of Fibonacci's spiral - these characters are defined by their vehicle of choice.

Long live the throttle stomper - the patinet chauffer bridging racial divide, the technicolor bus driver whose resume boasts fifteen wrecks with no fatalities, the omnipresent Man in Black who walks the line town-to-town fast enough to tie your tongue, to the woman whose feminist exclamation point is dotted at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Marty McFly - the scorcerer's apprentice to Dr. Emmett Brown, who poured his family inheritance into his Pop Car - said it best, "let's see if these bastards can do ninety."
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Touring Schedule

University of Mary Galleries
October 1 - 28, 2020
Bismarck State College Galleries
November 1 - 30, 2020
The Art Center
January 28 - March 6, 2021
Cando Art Center
April 1 - 30, 2021
Northwest Arts Center and Taube Museum of Art
May 11 - June 22, 2021
MonDak Heritage Center
August 2 - September 4, 2021
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​Minot State University, 500 University Ave W, Minot, ND 58707 | (701) 858-3242
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NDAGA is sponsored in part with funds from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Home
  • About
    • Member Galleries
  • 2022 Proposals
  • Annual Meeting
  • Exhibitions
    • BisMan Writers Guild
    • Susan Brekke
    • Doug Engberg
    • Jim Falck
    • Lacey Holmen
    • Charles Lee
    • Mitch Melberg
    • Deana Novak
    • Linda Olson
    • Dawson Shafer
    • Jessica Wachter
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2020 Governor's Photo Contest
      • Matthew Anderson & Michael Conlan
      • Jamie Azevedo
      • Lino Azevedo
      • Johnathan Campbell
      • David Driesbach
      • Carol Fielhaber
      • Mark Holter
      • Hooshang Khorasani
      • Sharon Linnehan
      • Jennifer & Brian Matthews
      • Roxi Mathis
      • Paul & Dakota Noot
      • Matthew Norton
      • NOTSTOCK
      • Walter Piehl
      • Mack Schroer
      • Dan Smith
      • Suite 1 Artists
      • Beau Theige
      • Erica Thune
      • Avis Veikley
      • Emily Williams-Wheeler
  • Contact
  • Resources