Based in Southampton, NY, Troy Buckner is a private art curator with nearly two decades in the art business. In 1998, Troy Buckner founded Clark Fine Art in Southampton, NY, and has since turned to working solely as a freelance curator. Buckner has curated exhibitions that have included work by such prolific artists as Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, and Roy Lichtenstein. These artists became a particularly distinct fixture in the New York art scene during the mid-20th century, popularizing the pop-art movement of the 1950s and '60s.

2.  Based in Southampton, NY, Troy Buckner
is a private art curator with nearly two
decades in the art business. In 1998, Troy
Buckner founded Clark Fine Art in
Southampton, NY, and has since turned
to working solely as a freelance curator.
Buckner has curated exhibitions that
have included work by such prolific
artists as Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist,
Robert Indiana, and Roy Lichtenstein.

3.  These artists became a particularly distinct
fixture in the New York art scene during the
mid-20th century, popularizing the pop-art
movement of the 1950s and '60s.
As pop artists, Andy Warhol and others
worked closely with iconic, omnipresent
images of American advertising, consumer
goods, and popular culture. Commercial
products were portrayed in bold, colorful
styles on a canvas, as was the case with
Warhol’s famous painting of Campbell’s
soup cans.

4.  Also frequently portrayed were
immediately recognizable faces, such as
those of Marilyn Monroe and Mao
Zedong. Pop art was a modernist
movement that sought to create subject
matter out of the mundane and bridge
the divide between supposed concepts
of “high” and “low” art.