Column: At the Oceanside Museum of Art, a pop art exhibit by military veterans defies stereotypes...

At the Oceanside Museum of Art, a pop art exhibit by military veterans titled "Pop Smoke: A Veteran Art Exhibition" is defying stereotypes.

“Veteran art tends to be dark and foreboding and tends to take on heavy issues. So I was thinking, ‘What is the opposite of that, and how can we complicate things?,’” said Amber Zora, the South Dakota-based interdisciplinary artist who curated the Oceanside Museum of Art exhibition, which was developed in partnership with the Vista-based Veterans Art Project.