Category: Political Art
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Celebrate People’s History Book!
I am excited very to be included in the forthcoming 2nd edition of Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution that will be released on August 4th by the Feminist Press. The book is edited by Josh MacPhee who launched the poster series. The book includes an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and foreword […]
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Fragments of the Acceleration
Fragments of the Acceleration – A Project by Brandon Bauer Featuring work that Brandon Bauer, associate professor of art at St. Norbert College, completed on a recent sabbatical. Through video works, photo sequences and graphics, the project Fragments of the Acceleration explores the atomic origins of what has been referred to as “the Great Acceleration […]
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Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art
My video Cut: [The Sea Is All That Remains] is included in the exhibition My Gallery is an Idea: Ewa Partum and the Galeria Adres Archive, as a part of the Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art screenings associated with the exhibition. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of the Galeria Adres archives, […]
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Celebrate People’s History in Ann Arbor
One of the best-designed exhibitions of the Celebrate People’s History poster series is now on at the Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The photos (see below) look amazing. If you are in Eastern MI, check it out! More info on the show can be found on the Justseeds site HERE, or from the gallery website HERE. Stamps Gallery […]
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The Euromissiles Crises Series at UW-Manitowoc
My Euromissiles Crisis series is currently on display at the University of Wisconsin – Manitowoc through Mid-March in the Founder’s Hall Art Gallery. More information about the exhibition can be found here.
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Oliver Ressler – Catastrophe Bonds
About the Exhibition: The exhibition Catastrophe Bonds is the first survey of Oliver Ressler‘s work in the United States. It will be on view in the Bush Art Center Galleries at St. Norbert College, and the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. The exhibition focuses on forms of grassroots democracy as well as economic […]
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Art As Action: Politics and the Creative Impulse
September 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm in the Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, Ripon College Our time in history is one of political upheaval as well as social and environmental unrest. Many of the seminal moments in art history have come from artists willing to take a stand amid such adversity. Artists act […]
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#WorldsUpsideDown
#WorldsUpsideDown is an exhibition exploring the hopes and failures of radical political change at Firstsite, a cultural center in Colchester, England. The Justseeds Celebrate People’s History poster series will be included along with other great projects. Here is the description of the exhibition from the Firstsite website: Riots. Revolts. Revolution. All flashing moments which throw the […]
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1000 Suns in YIELD!
My 1000 Suns project was selected as a featured portfolio for YIELD #3! YIELD is a project of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, they describe their mission as “Searching for the collectable in the digital age of photography”. Issue #3 also includes a Catherine Opie feature, a Jen Davis […]
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In The In-Between
The journal In The In-Between has featured my Landscapes of Absence project. In The In-Between is an artist-run web and print journal that highlights artists working at the intersections of photography and digital media. As they describe the mission of the journal: “The primary mission of In the In-Between is to serve as a research […]
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Never More! Hiroshima-Fukushima
My video AN602: Tsar Bomba was selected to be a part of the “Never More! – Hiroshima-Fukushima” video art collection through the CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections. CTF was Founded in 2012, to collect and present work by artists and filmmakers dealing with topics of collective trauma, and who are using new technologies and […]
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Urban Agriculture Poster in Climate Prints!
My Urban Agriculture poster is now available for download through Climate Prints! As they say about the site: “Climate Prints is a web-based platform for artists, designers, and organizers who seek creative methods to participate in the Climate Justice Movement. It is a curated site to download hi-resolution graphics under a host of categories that […]
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Gerald Holtom Poster
I made this poster about Gerald Holtom for a project in 2013, but ended up not using it. I just found it again and thought I would post it here. Gerald Holtom was a British artist and conscientious objector. He designed a nuclear disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action […]
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The Colors I Cannot Explain at UW Oshkosh
I have a solo exhibition currently on view at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in the Annex Gallery. The exhibition features a new two-channel video installation critically examining the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as well as work drawn from an ongoing project of archival photo documentation of above ground nuclear tests conducted by United States. […]
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Celebrate People’s History at the Durland Alternatives Library!
“Celebrate People’s History – a visual journey through social movements past and present” at the Durland Alternatives Library on the campus of Cornell University! If you are in Ithica come check it out! More info here…
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Brandon Bauer in the Up and Close Documentary
Brandon Bauer discussing his Euromissiles Crisis portfolio suite in the documentary “Up and Close – Their Art. Their Stories.” The documentary features four artists from Wisconsin discussing their work, inspirations, motivations, and techniques. Up and Close was directed by Zachary Kidder and produced in association with the Frank Juarez Gallery (2013).
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A Call To Halt – Justseeds Re-post
Here is a re-post of a post on the Justseeds site about the “Call To Halt” exhibition- Enjoy! To see the Justseeds post click here. /////// A Call To Halt: A multimedia installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and of the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987 is a new […]
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A Call To Halt – Opening Soon!
My exhibition “A Call To Halt” will be opening soon at the Frank Juarez Gallery!
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To Share – Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles
To Share – A Statement The piece “To Share” considers the ethical implications of the act of sharing between the real and the virtual world. The ease of replication and transfer in digital forms creates a crisis within the culture of ownership. This ethical confrontation has existed in the notions of the public and private […]
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