art history

So this page is intended for my art and the art that I am discovering and artists I admire. =)

So one thing I've become very interested in is racism. And mostly the human experience, but the way we experience it differently. Last winter I did a collaboration with 3 other art students. We made "Amernica" after picasso's famous Guernica. We used his symbols and imagery in our own 4 panel pieces. Each of our's had to do with issues and different "wars" in America. One was about abortion, the other military, one was on economics, and mine was about immigration.

Amernica

But I chose to show immigration from the side of those trying to immigrate, especially from central america. I heard horrible stories from my latin companions on my mission about people who had tried to come to the U.S. There are coyotes they can pay who will take them to a certain point or take them across the border. Some are really evil coyotes and they take people's money and then leave them to die in a desert somewhere. Most of these people are just trying to escape the oppressive conditions in their country, or their trying to provide for their family. So my piece was called Dying to Live made with gessoed masonite board, newspaper, acrylic paint, and aluminum wire. the lighting in this picture turned it yellowish but it's only black white and red.

Dying to Live