Image courtesy Alan Cristea Gallery, London, and BCB Art, Hudson

British Pop art pioneer Richard Hamilton, best known for his Warholesque Swinging London series of prints, brings together studies he has been making since 1947 for his etching How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out. The inspiration for the piece was Hamilton's long-running obsession with illustrating James Joyce's Ulysses.

Hamilton explored How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out through a series of drawings, etchings, and digital images, the pictorial equivalents of the wanderings of Leopold Bloom. The collage includes images such as Leopold Bloom meeting Boylan, the man having an affair with his wife, and envisioning himself as being treated like a coat rack; Molly Bloom looking in a mirror while reflecting on age and her affair; and a picture of a mangy Irish Wolfhound, possibly named Garyowen, owned by an outspoken and cranky man known as "the citizen."

Like Joyce, Hamilton mined both high and low culture for content. Each put together past and present in order to produce two-way reflections, while deploying an eclecticism of voice and point of view as a way to resist the romantic artist's investment in personal style.

Hamilton's work was exhibited at BCB Art in Hudson in June. (518) 828-4539; www.bcbart.com.