BEING AMERICAN

Opening Thursday Dec. 1 and going through Dec 21 is a remarkable show I am delighted to be a part of.  Being American (at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W.26 St. 15th fl. NYC) has been conceived and mounted by the staff led by curator Francis Di Tommaso:

“The twenty artists in this show have twenty stories to tell about the experience of being American today. Though many would not normally exhibit in the same venue-the work of some is almost never seen outside of the printed page-they all have immediately accessible and also exquisitely nuanced commentaries to make on American culture.”

I am very honored to be a part of this wide review of visual commentary on American life, and very grateful to Francis and the gallery for putting so high a value on art done as journalism.  This field is also represented by work by Christoph Neimann, Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss.

Reception: Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm

Here are a couple of my pieces in the show:

This Lincoln was done in Crayola on camera for “Picturing America” on PBS.

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Occupying the District

On November 6th, on the way to the protest to surround the White House against the proposed XL pipeline horror, I was delighted to find Washington’s own Occupy encampment.

Occupy D.C. - McPherson Square

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YEAR-END, ALREADY?

For the upcoming Year-End Quiz for Inc magazine, AD Jason Mischka asked for some top players of the year at a kind of Last Supper.  Here are the sketches and the finals on Ashton Kutcher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos etc. Very fun gig!      

WE ARE STILL AT WAR

Soldiers of the Personal Security Detachment, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, mount an M2 .50-caliber machine gun before conducting night fire drills during training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Miss., October 31, 2011. The 37th IBCT is deploying to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. 37th IBCT photo by Sgt. Kimberly Lamb. From Mother … Read more

BTW: THE WAR

This today from the US Army, via Mother Jones.