Oxfam -- Climate Change on Canvas

CLIMATE CHANGE ON CANVAS

Oxfam America is proud to participate in an exciting project bringing together artists and activists from around the world, each doing their part to illustrate how climate change is affecting poor communities right now.

After requesting proposals from several up-and-coming artists from around the country, Oxfam America commissioned “the painting activist” Ashley Cecil of Louisville, Kentucky to put her ideas about climate change on canvas. Her painting will be shipped to Oxfam International's exhibition at the next UN Conference of Parties (COP) meeting, which takes place this December 1-12 in Poznan, Poland. Cecil's work will be displayed alongside similar works of art created by internationally renowned professionals as well as unknown community artists from around the globe–from Malawi to the Solomon Islands, from Spain to India. The exhibition serves as a powerful reminder of the growing, global movement around climate change and poverty.

Oxfam America has also received artwork from college students in Minneapolis, Bangkok, and Chicago, which will also go on display in Poznan.

Tulum 2007

A little trip to Tulum, Mexico, in November 2007

Working on the New Place

I have finally started construction of my new art site and I don't see any reason to wait until it's done to put the address here at least:


Revolutionaryart.org

It's far from done and I'm still struggling with the best plugins to use for the gallery pictures, but things are there. I mean, I wouldn't send you to a blank website!

Daniel Gonzalez Muniz

Recently selected as an administrator's favorite on Flickr. This is called "1st world murder" o "Africa" on flickr. You can see more of his work, and it's amazing! here on his flickr page. Much of his work is social commentary, some is political, some defies categorization.
Check it out.
My photos are there too but no artwork yet.

Interplanetary

Doug Minkler does printable graphics and socially conscious artwork and graphics. This is his statement from his website:

"Corporations want artists to glorify their wars, their products & their philosophies. I make posters for my own preservation, that is, planetary preservation. My prints are inspired not by rugged individualism, but by the collective humor, defiance, & lust for life exhibited by those on the margins."

He's done some very nice things and it's definitely artwork I can relate to.

Interesting Enough to Note . . .

SLART Tracks Art of Second Life:
With over 2.8 million registered users, the online world of Second Life is attracting its share of media attention. Now Richard Minsky,
an artist and the founder of the Center for Book Arts, has started a
magazine dedicated to Second Life's burgeoning art marketplace. Named Slart
(for "Second Life Art"), the publication will trace the development of
the virtual trade, where works — ranging from the graf-influenced
abstractions of Filthy Fluno to the now defunct, sculpture-creating magic wand of StarAx Statosky
can sell for nearly six figures in Lindens (the currency of Second
Life, where 250 Lindens=$1). Because Second Life users have copyrights
over their virtual creations, real money is exchanged between simulated
hands. The IBM Corporation is rumored to be building a collection of
virtual artwork, while Jen Bekman Gallery and George Eastman House have already set up virtual exhibitions.
Go to original story "

And here is SLART
Pictured: A Painting of Judith by Artemetia Gentileschi

Abu Ghraib Paintings

The artwork of Fernando Botera, which you can see more of here.
My initial reactions to this show were not good. I thought the men were too fat, too white, stiffly posed, obviously done from small photos, anatomically incorrect, etc. Then I thought, what the hell, it's the point of it. If paintings have a good point, I'm willing to forgive almost anything. I still don't understand why they are all so obese, but at least he has a recognizable style and something to say, although I'm not sure exactly what it is. Torture makes you fat? If I had done these they would have looked like they were suffering more, but I like that he did this and got wide exposure for it. All in all the paintings seem a little removed to me.


If you are an artist who does "revolutionary art" send me some pics and I don't mind sharing them here at all. There are too few websites devoted to political and cultural art and I want to build a good one, and I don't mind sharing it with other artists. Stay tuned.