Mixed Messages - "Be Good" (2) Painting

Connie Imler Zerden is a self-taught artist who resides and works in Atlanta, Georgia USA. Her professional career began in the television industry, an experience that entrenched her in the farcical world of pop culture and led to an obsession with it's by-product; pop art. The artwork of CIZ is intended to prod the viewer into critically assessing common influencers of 20th and 21st century life. Indeed, much of her work examines the intertwined worlds of popular media and consumer products, where images become so ubiquitous that we often lose sight of the absurdity of their underlying message. All that being said, Connie still believes in seeing the tremendous humor in our pop culture obsessed world. She's often been known to grab a candy cigarette and binge-watch that train-wreck known as reality TV.