Barack Like Me: November 2008

Full Body Transplant is the blog of Rian Fike, a Miami artist and teacher. In an entry called "President Obama, the Artist," he presented some of the work he did during the election cycle and talked about how it was inspired. He found that Barack Obama supports the arts in education, and considers them important to society. Rian also presented the work of

Michael Murphy

, exhibited at Georgia College. (For the full impact, you must go to his site directly, for you can see closeups, for detail.)

The black protruberances are carefully-driven nails!

This piece is shown from several angles, at several distances, but impressed me most displayed thus.

This is a wire piece - the video below is amazing!

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Michelle Obama Painting 0 comments

I was just reading about the exhibit by artist Peyton, who has done portraits of people such as Curt Cobain. She has a show at a gallery in New York City and her portrait of Michelle Obama was just sold to an undisclosed buyer. There were quite a few articles, but I had a hard time tracking down an image of the actual painting. When I did, I noticed that it is going to be displayed in the Twin Cities before long.

information on the artist, Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton, "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008" (2008) - unveiled in NYC 11/08/08