"New Pictures of Common Objects"

The ubiquity and fluidity of images has never been greater, thanks to the Web, social media and mobile apps. Pop culture—once thought to be a monolithic entity that hypnotized compliant mass audiences—has become, to a considerable extent, an interactive hive of user-generated memes. These issues serve as background for this roundup of young artists working in various mediums, all of whom refer to this cultural sea change in one fashion or another.