Recap: The past two quarters I participated in senior seminar class at Cal State Bakersfield. I created four new paintings for this exhibit. They were four five toot by four foot each, the largest I have ever painted. Working from concept to completion took a lot of gesso, many late nights, nearly all my paint for about five months.
This body of work is history paintings, just as many artists have made. History is being made every day. The chalkboard represents an ever-changing history. The media takes information about people and events and filters into a perverse scandalized story that time goes on.
Those who run
for public office, such as the presidency, gain tons of media coverage, but
whoever wins the race essentially gets more coverage in the history books. On
the chalkboard that is history, this story might fade to the back. During a
debate between president Obama and Mitt Romney, Mitt describes how he finds
women to make a diverse cabinet, “we went to a number of women’s groups… and
they brought us binders full of women.”
*The beauty of painting is imagination.
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