The Art of Democracy
September 6th, 2008
The Art of Democracy: War and Empire at Meridian Gallery
Artists across the country, animated by response to events of the last seven years and mobilized over the past two years by Art Hazelwood, a San Francisco-based printmaker, and Stephen A. Fredericks, president of the New York, Society of Etchers have organized a series of forty exhibitions entitled Art of Democracy. The exhibitions, spanning the United States from Washington State to New Hampshire, including Puerto Rico, will analyze what went wrong within this millennium with an America that was admired not so long ago.
San Francisco’s non-profit Meridian Gallery will host the most comprehensive of the Bay Area shows, Art of Democracy: War and Empire, from September 4 to November 4. Each national exhibition and event has its own sub theme; Meridian Gallery chose War and Empire. In addition to the exhibition featuring more than forty artists, an extensive schedule of related films, concerts, and lectures is conceived as an integral component of the show.
Participating artists: Scott Anderson, David Avery, Will Barnet, Jesus Barraza, Sandow Birk, Fernando Botero, Mark Bryan, Enrique Chagoya, Guy Colwell, Robbie Conal, Francisco Dominguez, Eric Drooker, Ala Ebtekar, Kevin Evans, Bella Feldman, Stephen Fredericks, Juan Fuentes, J.C. Garrett, Art Hazelwood, Mary Hull Webster, Frances Jetter, David Jones, Hung Liu, Roberta Loach, Mary V. Marsh, Fernando Marti, Doug Minkler, Claude Moller, Malaquias Montoya, Pat Oliphant, Ariel Parkinson, Francesca Pastine, Patrick Piazza, Phyllis Plattner, Gary-Paul Prince, Rigo 23, Favianna Rodriguez, Ben Sakoguchi, Jos Sances, SF Print Collective, Mark Vallen, Gee Vaucher, Howard Whitehouse and Richard Linder, William T. Wiley, and Bruce Yurgil.
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Thanks for the heads up Emory.





