The AA exhibition GAS TANK CITY by Andrew Holmes is featured in The Guardian and Wallpaper*

The current exhibition GAS TANK CITY has been featured in The Guardian this week in an article written by Alice Fisher titled Design news: adult Lego, dissolving plastic and Brad Pitt’s Jeans. In a section sub-headed as Road art, Fisher discusses AA alum Andrew Holmes’ ‘hyperreal colour pencil drawings of Kenworth trucks, gas stations and city streets’. Fisher also writes ‘the drawings feel particularly powerful as the era of oil in American society comes to an end. A paean to the cultural and technological pzazz of the automobile, a life on the road.’

AA Director Ingrid Schroder was also quoted: ‘This exhibition is a testament to the extremes of fascination, and what this fascination – and its manifestation through drawing – can make possible.’

The exhibition and coinciding publication were also featured in Wallpaper* by Jonathan Bell.

Read the full articles from The Guardian here and Wallpaper* here, and for more information on the exhibition, click here.

The exhibition GAS TANK CITY is on view in the AA Front Members’ Room until Saturday 7 December.

Image: D-Best, a drawing from Andrew Holmes’s Gas Tank City Photograph by Andrew Holmes.