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Saturday, March 24, 2018

human-not-quite-human

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In addition to my work as a visual artist, I also teach college-level writing and have been doing so for more than thirty years. E...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

island of lost souls

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I’d always considered Island of Lost Souls a movie about human psychology—an allegory for the concept of the beast within. The way in whic...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

kiss me deadly

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I grew up, in the Sixties, hearing the oft-repeated argument that our technology, in the form of the nuclear bomb, had developed faster tha...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

the lost cause

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The linchpin of my upcoming exhibit is a painting of two men in business suits, shaking hands. Followers of this blog have seen this image ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

charlottesville

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Charlottesville happened over the weekend, and one can already foresee, as I write on this Monday morning, the week’s CNN obsessions: Trump...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

touch

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Every painting in my upcoming exhibit, Grip , features a male hand curled into a grip of some kind. In one painting, two men engage in a si...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

obedience

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She was being beaten on the street by her husband, in the middle of the day, in plain sight of passersby, because she had refused to obey h...
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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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