Uptown (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner’s edition Uptown (1971), from his portfolio Fun City, presents a highly stylized female figure against a stark black ground. The work combines bold geometric forms, saturated colours and graphic elements characteristic of Lindner’s distinctive visual language, drawing on the imagery of advertising, fashion and comics. The exaggerated figure and frontal composition convey a sense of glamour, theatricality and ambiguity, reflecting Lindner’s fascination with power, sexuality and modern urban culture. Uptown is part of the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.