Tuesday, November 4, 2014

"The Artist's Corner..."


"Voter Suppression"
Oil on canvas
Vinnie Sherfield

The piece depicts a prison-cell scene in which a shackled, blindfolded man tries to cast a ballot that's clutched between his teeth in a voting box out of his reach. Above him hangs the blade of a guillotine. Rays of light shine on the man from a small barred window. A large American flag is painted on the opposite wall and bleeds on to the floor. The work, Sherfield says, is a "visual representation documenting the Cost of Freedom and those who paid the price for it."



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