San Francisco Chronicle: American Iconomics / Art exhibit by James Charles and Akira Beard
Money and celebrity. Like it or not, America has a madcap obsession with both. In "American Iconomics," at the Shooting Gallery artists James Charles and Akira Beard explore our society's fixation with and valuing of pop culture icons. But the means by which these two creatives express their snarky sociopolitical viewpoints is uniquely and irreverently distinct.