Jersey City artist Michael Meadors has long been a critique of the fashion world. His models lazily look at the camera, hiding what the eye hungers for and revealing just enough to keep viewers salivating.

Meadors's latest studies of pop culture can be seen in "Replicants," opening Sunday at PVS Gallery in Hoboken. Using both his realist drawing style and the art of collage, he focuses on "our evolving relationship with pictures."

"We are surrounded by images. Billboards, television, Instagram, Google image search," he says. "I've chosen a commonplace image, an H&M advertisement for men's fashion, (which is) repeated so many times that it loses all meaning as an image.

"Starting with this visual white noise I mechanically reproduce the same instance by hand-drawing each separate object. By their nature of being hand-crafted, the imperfections start to pile up."

Meadors says he drew some of the images so many times, he ended up being able to draw several of them from memory.

"I spend a large part of my studio time ruminating on the nature of illusion, two-dimensional representation, surface, the picture plane, and our culture's relationship to images...I can't wait to see how these elements, collage and mnemonic drawing, will be folded into the rest of my work," he said.

In the end, he says he has created a series of works as wildly different as they are similar.

"As a totality they create a dialogue of many voices speaking similar sentences," he said. "They're all cover songs; each starting with the same drawing foundation but through the process they evolve into their personal brand."

"Replicants" opens with a reception from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 6 at Paul Vincent Gallery, 49 Harrison St., Hoboken. For more information, visit MichaelMeadors.com.