Featured Painting "Progression"

My 2009 oil painting Progression, conceived and executed after our nation and the world had suffered the dark era of George W. Bush, and entered an epoch ought have ushered in some changes in the U.S. following the ascendency of President Obama. Alas. It was not to be. Many people's feverish hope proved constructed from thin air, and the changes were ever elusive, and the human rights abuses we collectively permitted largely remain in place. The long list of human sufferings continue.

 My painting attempted to catalog such sufferings in a collage of iconography images, from Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary, Michelangelo's slave sculpture, David's Liberty Leads People, and the hooded abused prisoner in Abu Ghraib. The focal point of the painting is the sad face of an earnest man, personification of the sorrows and compassion of humankind.



Progression
Oil on Canvas
30" x 24"
Completed in 2009

Here is a video presentation of this painting:


This painting has been choose to be part of a group exhibition, Today's Artists Interact with Major Art Movements from the Renaissance to the Present, at Arts Passages in Berkeley (22 August - 11 November 2015), curated by Expressions Gallery in Berkeley.

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com

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