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Winston Smith
Bunny Funny Money
 
 
 
Pop Modern

Armed with razor blade and a fiendish wit, Winston Smith's modus operandi since the 1970's has been to kidnap "innocent" images from the pages of vintage magazines and then to diabolically glue them into compromising or politically revealing positions in his surreal collage landscapes. "Truly subversive artwork" wrote the SF Weekly in a review of Smith's first book Act Like Nothing's Wrong. "Perhaps the most vibrant collage maestro since Max Ernst," wrote popular underground artist Frank Kozik, who goes on to credit Winston with being "single-handedly responsible for an entire generation's graphic style."

He first came to infamy by way of his hard hitting political shock piece, Idol - a "bowling trophy style" Jesus nailed to a cross of dollars that was used for the Dead Kennedys' album In God We Trust, Inc. That album, which was subsequently banned in England and condemned by the American Religious Right, landed Smith and Dead Kennedys a permanent spot in the punk culture hall of shame.


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