{"id":33756,"date":"2019-05-14T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33756"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:30:01","slug":"rob-croxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/rob-croxford\/","title":{"rendered":"rob croxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/rob-croxford\/robcroxford\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33760\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robcroxford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robcroxford.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robcroxford-146x1024.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought, &#8216;Cool, vintage sign paintings&#8217;, until I realized what I was actually looking at&#8230; vintage signs and pop culture movies had a bunch &#8216;o babies! This is the work of Canadian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robcroxford.com\">Rob Croxford.<\/a>\u00a0Rob has been a full-time artist for almost two decades, but in May 2018, a studio fire all but destroyed his Toronto studio &#8230; and his complete inventory of artworks. I can&#8217;t even imagine. This series, titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robcroxford.com\/sign-language-new.html\">&#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>is his fresh start. Here are Rob&#8217;s words about why he does what he does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;As a child of the 70\u2019s, I was mostly raised by television and movies. Advertising and pop culture became my religion and the wisdom I gleaned shaped my sensibilities as an artist &#8230; My new series of paintings is the culmination of all my obsessions. By integrating iconic movie quotes into the landscape of well worn roadside signage I am merging pop culture, nostalgia and humour. This blend of elements creates something familiar and yet completely new.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck on this &#8216;completely new&#8217; adventure, Rob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, I thought, &#8216;Cool, vintage sign paintings&#8217;, until I realized what I was actually looking at&#8230; vintage signs and pop culture movies had a bunch &#8216;o babies! This is the work of Canadian artist Rob Croxford.\u00a0Rob has been a full-time artist for almost two decades, but in May 2018, a studio fire all but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33756"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33763,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions\/33763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}