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Drawing Resistance |
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by Jason Pitzl-Waters
Email: jason (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
06 Jan 2003
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Drawing Resistance
http://www.drawingresistance.org
Date: Jan 5-31 (opening reception Jan 18, 7-9pm)
Location: The Middle Room Gallery @ The U-C IMC
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org |
Drawing Resistance press release
http://www.drawingresistance.org
Date: Jan 5-31 (opening reception Jan 18, 7-9pm)
Location: The Middle Room Gallery @ The U-C IMC
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org
Drawing Resistance - a traveling political art show
Drawing Resistance is a show of two dimensional artwork by 31 artist/activists from North America. The content-based show speaks to subject matter vital to understanding the world today, including the anti-globalization movement, working class rights, the destruction of the environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, gentrification and the Zapatista liberation movement in Mexico.
The show, organized by Sue Simensky Bietila (Milwaukee) and Nicolas Lampert (Minneapolis)
will travel for up to five years to cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico from 2001-2005. Drawing Resistance has no funding and relies solely on the communities hosting the show to transport it to the next site. Like a band on tour, the art show is getting in the van! Drawing Resistance is unique in its collective organizing method and ability to turn the gallery into a workshop. In addition to presenting the two dimensional art show, many cities are planning collaborative events to coincide with the show.
Fully three generations of political art are represented in the Drawing Resistance show. Chicago artist, Carlos Cortez is old enough to remember the days of Depression-era political art. Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper’s storyboard magazine World War 3-Illustrated along with the legendary punk album-cover art of Winston Smith (Dead Kennedy’s) and John Yates provide a crucial bridge to the current generation. Styles range from the bright watercolors of Domitila Dominguez (Questions & Swords: Folk Tales of the Zapatista Revolution, written by Subcommandante Marcos) to the street posters of Robbie Conal to the spray paint/stencils of Josh MacPhee to the collages of Freddie Baer.
“Drawing Resistance is a bracing, enlivening panorama of radical humanism, stretched wide by the expansive hopes and traumas of our times. Long may it travel.” -- William Eisenstein, Urban Ecology
For further information contact the The Middle Room Gallery: gallery (at) ucimc.org
Jason Pitzl-Waters
The Middle Room Gallery
@ The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org |
See also:
http://www.drawingresistance.org
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org
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