Kevin Guthrie’s Work Is as American as Beer, Baseball, and Watergate

Kevin Guthrie is a self-taught artist who draws portraits of pop-culture heroes and villains with pencil and crayon on the inner side of flattened cardboard boxes once packed with beer cans. The renderings are simple, but they brim with personality and social commentary. Guthrie’s previous exhibition at Julia Martin, “Bicycle Thieves” (2016), was the first in a planned trilogy of shows about the role of sports in American culture. It featured images of the opponents Muhammad Al