According to James Walton, who curates SLCC’s exhibit and gallery spaces, the only unifying characteristic of low brow art is that it privileges personal perception over the tenets of traditional taste. Low brow art, he explains in the punchy, comixstyle flyer posted at the entrance to a new exhibit at South City Campus, is “an umbrella term that describes several styles and practices that have been historically rejected by formal art academia. At least, that’s the only signpost that one of the movement’s earliest champions, Robert Williams, planted to help artists and viewers alike make sense of the surrealist, Dada-esque movement. The exhibit (officially titled “The Weird Cartoons, Kitsch & Culture of Low Brow Art”) presents a mashup of sardonic cultural references, exaggerated line work, and stylized grotesqueries in various media including paintings, drawings, comics, stickers, and sculptures. The only consistency is inconsistency; the only convention is lack of conventio...