SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The exhibition On the
Road takes
its title from the legendary book by American poet and novelist Jack
Kerouac,
which describes the author’s adventurous road trip across the United
States in
the late 1940s. The exhibition investigates the myth of the American
road trip
as it started to develop from the early 1920s onwards due to the immense
expansions of highways and roads, particularly in the West of the
country. On
the Road explores the fascination that artists, especially in the
Southwest,
have had for a culture that emerged in between highways, gas stations,
diners,
and motels and examines how much they influence a particular
iconography.