These richly colored prints are brimming with tabloid fads and cheesy allusions to rock songs as well as Biblical allegory and mythic archetypes.

“I am striving to anchor myself in contemporary popular culture using an antiquated process, the relief print,” says the artist. “In my work, the struggle between Carnival and Lent is a mismatch, a pitched battle ending in high jinks. Without our follies we would be without a sense of morality, perhaps more importantly, without a sense of humor or empathy. My work attempts to strike a balance between the ugly and the alluring, between popular culture and the highfalutin, between the sacred and the profane.”

Brett Anderson received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1999. In 2002, he completed his MFA in printmaking at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Anderson now lives in with his wife in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he is currently an artist in residence at the Lux Center of the Arts.

The exhibition runs January 8 through February 17, with a reception for the artist on Saturday afternoon, January 20, 1-4:00 p.m.