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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. As history is being written, all of these issues can be gets added to the chalkboard. Things get erased or added as revised, or even erased, based on who is telling the story.

For politicians of the highest levels, foreign affairs are paramount to success. President Ronald Reagan had a close relationship with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Reagan was quoted “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”


For Further Reading:
Todd Madigan Gallery
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Friendship
BBC: Thatcher Hisotry
theWhiteHouse: Reagan History