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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

edward mapplethorpe

variation no. 10, 2011, silver gelatin print

variation no. 9, 2011, silver gelatin print

more at: http://edwardmapplethorpe.com/

john rosewall: I am a self-taught artist living and working in Northeast Los Angeles. After beginning in the visual arts with documentary-style photography, and moving through a period of abstraction, I have returned to my roots in socially conscious figuration with paintings executed in an austere, simplified, realist style. Basing my work on photographs taken from a wide variety of sources or created in-studio with models, I distill the images into emblematic representations of violence, injustice, and oppression, with the aim of critiquing systems of power in the United States and abroad.

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