figurative art
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“On my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons of pictures to keep up the morale and to send back to friends and family. I had everything backed up to a hard drive and I lost (crashed) that hard drive, which was very hurtful because I had pictures of family members that are deceased. I realized the only thing I could do was document life in the present.” — Michael McCoy
Photography by Michael McCoy
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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.” — Richard Serra
Richard Serra
TTI London
2007
two torqued tori of weatherproof steel
each 14 x 35″
installation view
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“What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.” — Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Sad Shower in New York
1995
Monoprint on paper
420 × 593 mm
Tate Collections
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“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”— Malcolm X
Breonna Taylor
2020
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 in.
Price: Not for Sale
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Isn’t it great living in this country? Do we truly enjoy the freedom of speech?
“The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) sought assistance from the Thai Cyber Police, following the discovery of inappropriate content related to Buddhism on Facebook. The content, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), depicts Buddhist monks engaging in non-religious activities, such as playing musical instruments and racing on motorbikes. These images, deemed damaging to the image of the monastic community, have raised concerns among the Buddhist community.”
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“I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we’re visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what’s been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.” — Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (How come only the unborn have the right to life?)
1986
photograph and type on paper.