Cristea Roberts Gallery’s summer exhibition showcases fifty years of editions and prints by artists who helped define and expand the visual language of the Pop-era. Titled Pop Revisited, the show returns to a movement born amid the postwar image boom, when glossy advertising and mass media gave rise to what Richard Hamilton famously described as an art that was popular, transient, expendable, mass-produced and glamorous.
Bringing together works by artists including Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Bridget Riley, Joe Tilson and Tom Wesselmann, the exhibition explores the many ways artists responded to the explosion of consumer culture and mass imagery. Hamilton’s I’m dreaming of a black Christmas (1971) and Joe Tilson’s Is this Che Guevara? (1969) subvert the imagery of cultural icons, while Caulfield and Wesselmann are able to transform everyday domestic life scenes into enduring representations of collective nostalgia.
The exhibition also highlights printmaking as a defining medium of the Pop movement, reflecting the same systems of repetition and production that shaped contemporary visual culture. Alongside works by artists such as Jasper Johns, whose recurring motifs underscore the conceptual power of seriality, Pop Revisited extends beyond Pop Art to include Bridget Riley’s Op Art explorations of perception and optical experience.
The exhibition will be on view 23 July – 20 August 2026 at 43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG.
