Tuesday, February 5, 2013

1352 Gentle


sold Yesterday I attended a lecture given by artist Linda Bond (click to view her website) at Brandeis University on the subject of the "Artist as Advocate for Social Justice." She talked about many artists from Ellen Gallagher to Ai Weiwei to William Kentridge to Daniel Heyman before discussing her own work. Bond is unique in that she works in many mediums and often does large scale drawings with gunpowder. She described some of her own work as a "gentle confrontation. . . " still life, acrylic, 6" x 6"