recent news

ART AS SOCIAL INQUIRY GETS PRESS in the Bucks County Herald (8/5/09)  Click here to read the piece.

What’s coming: a blog, “press room.”  Two more portraits are completed and will be posted soon.  Two more are in the works.

Invite everyone you know to become a “fan” of Art As Social Inquiry on Facebook. (Log in or sign up)

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

The portrait, The Immigrant, launches the project, ART AS SOCIAL INQUIRY

I encourage you to participate and forward the site to anyone and everyone.

Maybe the picture stirs up old memories.  Do you remember when you first had an opinion on illegal immigration?  What do you think most shaped your opinion?  Do you know any illegal immigrants? Have you been hurt/helped by an illegal immigrant?  What do you think you are most afraid of regarding this topic?

I don’t have an agenda in any of this.  Mine is to record by painting and invite conversation.

CURRENT PROJECT
I am painting portraits of American citizens and their health insurance “designations.”  While the topic of illegal immigration has just one portrait, my health insurance series should have about 100 pictures.  My goal is to ask, What does the American health insurance system look like in the faces of the American people?  I’ll post the paintings as I finish them.  My dream is to include in this series a portrait of Secratary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a representation of government health insurance coverage.

It also occurs to me that the portraits can be instruments of social change.  The portraits are pictures of real people, and they might sensitize us to the fact that all opinions affect real people.  Aiming our opinions at real people may, in turn, alter our opinions.  But this is just me thinking outloud.

Let’s have fun with this.