The House of Pikachu: Art, Anime, and Pop Culture explores the manifold associations of not only Pikachu but the scope of anime at large. Taking a sweeping view of its influence, most of the artists assembled grew up in a world in thrall with this aesthetic and its evolution, experiencing the aftereffects of its dispersal.

As a conceptual artist and self-proclaimed visual futurist, Syd Mead believed in the possibility of the future, painstakingly rendering it in gouache with the tools of the drafting table until his death in 2019. 

This interchange—of currency and obsolescence, of history and its apprehension—is a curatorial impetus in LANDLINE, a group exhibition presented at Turn.

In the United States, the 1970s were a decade of changes large and small: political stagnation, economic malaise, and profound technological achievement that yielded the launch of the first crewed space station and the establishment of the military computer networks that would give birth to the internet.