Author Description

The dreamlike imagery of Ash Lieb invites each viewer to stand back and ask, "Which side of the Looking glass are we really on?" In Lieb's 2013 exhibition "How not to be seen," the artist journeys into that very mirror, where he explores the duality of all that is absurdism. While one element deals with the laughter, nonsense and ridicule of absurd or surreal humour, the other deals with the philosophical definition of absurdism, regarding the conflict between pursuing the meaning of life and the inability to find it. How not to be seen, which is a reference to the absurd humour of Monty Python, is an exhibition book of a pop surrealist display where almost every piece settled precisely between the size of a can of Campbell's soup and the size of one of Warhol's soup paintings. Featuring more than fifty gloriously coloured artworks, dozens of image details and never before seen sketches by the artist, How not to be seen includes an introduction by James Willow Jr. and an afterword by Adam Greenberg.