Featuring works by political cartoonist Richard Mock, “Politics in Print” explores the social and political issues he considered urgent in his time. Influenced by German Expressionism and Mexican muralism, Mock used cheeky, bold humor to soften often serious subject matter.
Richard Mock (1944–2006) was a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Long Beach, California. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan on a football scholarship, where he studied lithography and block printing. From 1980 to 1996, his political cartoons appeared on The New York Times Op-Ed page and were distributed by the Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate, founded in 1978, garnering international attention. At the same time, he contributed to anarchist periodicals including “Fifth Estate,” “Alternative Press Review” and “Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.”
On view in the first-floor Preview Gallery.