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"all my drawings have
mistakes in them is a piece that I worked on for a print-based show at the
Aldrich [Contemporary Art] Museum. While the Aldrich was under construction,
they commissioned/invited about 30 artists to participate in an exhibition
called the 'Drawn Page.' Each week the local [news]paper consortium would
reproduce an 11 x 17 inch drawing in the local papers: one artist a week, for
approximately 30 weeks. I was, of course, thrilled to have a broad
audience, the readership was estimated at 30,000 people, and so I thought,
[we're on] the brink of invading Iraq, so I
wanted to create and draw about this. The drawing took the form of cut-out
dolls, Bush and Bin Laden on their underwear, with camouflage and business suits
to wear, oil rigs, guns, money, and maps of the region. While the piece was not
didactic in any way, just a smattering of images that were in the news, the
piece was the only one that the publishers of the papers refused to reproduce,
citing that it was too political and would offend readership. While the
piece was included in the re-opening exhibition at the Aldrich as well as in the
publication about the show, it was quite an experience to have such a work
censored from a show.
The other works, bush,
cheney and aschcroft, rumsfeld,
rice were created for an exhibition at Roebling Hall Gallery that was up
during the Republican National Convention when it was in
New York City in 2004. There is
a lot that has gone into the work, though my favorite reference is to Bob
Dylan's line, 'even sometimes the president of the
United States
has to stand naked.'" For additional artists who are interpreting world events,
click on
their names below.
Linda
Leslie Brown
Adam
Davies
Tom
Heid
Scott
Hemeon
Barbara
Kerstetter
Crislin
Meshberg
Phil
Morse
Chandra
Dieppa Ortiz
Dennis
O'Sullivan
Silas
Shabelewska
Leslie
Sills
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