Mothersbaugh (left) with Adam Lerner, who edited the book. Richard Peterson
Mothersbaugh (left) with Adam Lerner, who edited the book.
Self-Portrait as Clown (1987) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Self-Portrait as Clown (1987)
022 Punishment Room (1988) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
022 Punishment Room (1988)
Mothersbaugh Record (1969) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Mothersbaugh Record (1969)
My Math Professor, Bolich Junior High (1999-2007) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
My Math Professor, Bolich Junior High (1999-2007)
Cyclo-Augen Pet (2004) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Cyclo-Augen Pet (2004)
Hand Some Man (2004) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Hand Some Man (2004)
Mutatum (2012), one of the works included in Myopia, which collects the Devo cofounder's work. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Mutatum (2012), one of the works included in Myopia, which collects the Devo cofounder's work.
The General (2014) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
The General (2014)
A rug from Mothersbaugh's Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime exhibit in 2007. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
A rug from Mothersbaugh's Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime exhibit in 2007.
Freaked Pig rug (2004) Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
Freaked Pig rug (2004)
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
One of Mothersbaugh's post cards.
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards.
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards.
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards.
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards. Mark Mothersbaugh/courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
One of Mothersbaugh's postcards.
In the 40-plus years since he first donned the hazmat suit and flower pot hat as cofounder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh has done a lot more than just whip out pop hits. He’s been a Wes Anderson collaborator, commercial jingle writer, Yo Gabba Gabba! character, and the guy who made the awesome music on The Lego Movie. And he’s also tirelessly been making art.
The new book Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, out next week, collects the best works of his career as a visual artist. There are sketchbooks, handmade postcards, paintings, screen prints, even some Devo memorabilia. (Also, rugs.) “I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh,” Anderson, for whom Mothersbaugh has scored four movies, writes in the book’s foreword. “For 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously.”
Myopia will be accompanied by a traveling exhibition of Mothersbaugh’s works that is hitting six cities, starting this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. (The museum’s chief animator edited the essays in the book.) Check out some highlights of the book in the gallery above.
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