Empowering and Protective Bodies Merge in Laura Berger’s Metaphysical Paintings

Jenny Holzer, Survival, 1983-5

Do you have a home, heating, access to water, enough food to eat? Do not continue to picnic while wishing you couldn't see the bodies. Please give whatever you can afford to Doaa's family, who had all those things and more taken from them. Their campaign is still desperately low on the funds they need to survive and evacuate Gaza and they haven't received a donation in 2 days. Share some solidarity with people who need it the most today.

€1075/€35000

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Pleasant Street Series by Anissa Lewis (2019)

Mercedes Helnwein

Moon & Tide, 2018 ~ by Nora Akino_

Today Is The Day - Hiromix

Erika Lee Sears

June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, (back cover, photograph by June Jordan), Illustrated by Albert Williams, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, NY, 1972

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) - Friday the Thirteenth, 1965

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Louise Bourgeois I Pick on Everyone Dead or Alive letterpress color lithograph 1999

Pink Plate  - Patty Weise

American , b. 1940s -

Gouache on paper, 11 x 14 in.

the new American Gothic. // artist unknown, feel free to tag and tell me who painted this.

This is by Mexican American artist Crieselda Vasquez. Her words on this painting is as follows.

“The two most important people in my life, my parents, are also the two who motivated me to develop such a strong concept. When my parents pose for these paintings, their faces are reduced to extremely raw and somehow vulnerable expressions. Sadly, they strive to be invisible every day. They don’t have to pretend to illustrate the invisible. They have dealt with constant rejection, suspicion and fear so long, that it seems now that it comes naturally to them. I strive to capture how their expressions deliver that sense of tiredness, resignation, and quiet acceptance. It seems relevant to show that underneath all the politicization and undeserved labeling this community receives, these are regular people just like all of us. In the long tradition of immigrants that come to the United States, they have made homes here and they are just trying to live a simple life with a bit of security and hopefulness for their children."

Blue Monday By Annie Lee

artist: Karen Turner // model: Rubyyy Jones (they/them)