Rich Auth

Rich Auth’s fascination with technology and how it shapes, alters, powers, and extends human bodies and culture offers a picture of the myriad ways worlds are imagined and built. In his drawings of Hollywood history, car culture, The Bauhaus, medical innovation, and relics recontextualized by the journalist or museum curator, Auth spools out an interest in the comfort, autonomy, pleasure, and power which are the utopian promises of the Western cultural project. In this fantasy catalog of sorts, Auth positions these wonders in the miraculous light of the superhero, whose clarity of purpose shines towards the people's wellbeing, health, and happiness.