Dali meets Disney: who knows what Ron English, the Bart Simpson of the art world, will come up with next.

• Position: Contemporary Art

ONE OF THE MOST prolific and recognizable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images--on television, the street, and album covers as well as in museums, movies, and books. English coined the term "popaganda" to describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history--populated with his vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters. English's art--whether in paintings, billboards, murals, or sculpture--blends stunning visuals with the bitingly humorous undertones of one of America's premier pop iconoclast.

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Born in 1959 in Chicago, English paints, infiltrates, reinvents, and satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly into hundreds of pirated billboards. He exists spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real-life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive media savvy, and Dali-meets-Disney technique.

Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the...