“The Bang Bang Project #4,” an oil on canvas painting by artist Cesar Conde, is part of an exhibit examining gun violence in America. Especially timely, with shootings in Chicago up 24% over last year, murders up by 5%, the jarring exhibit, “American Roulette,” runs thru July 18 at Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave.
Photo by Aaron Baker
As you enter, seven guns are pointed at you huge guns, mounted on individual pedestals, measuring 25 by 34 by 6 inches.
It is the “Makes you want to run out and buy a gun,” installation by artist Dominic Sansone that greets visitors of American Roulette, an exhibit examining gun violence in America, running through July 18 at Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave.
While this proposal is very admirable, I doubt it’s very practical. It’s the same for the WTC area. Once new buildings are raised on his land, it’s value will skyrocket, it’s tax bills will be enormous. The idea that there’s going to be some new shiny spaces there that local artists can afford is pie-in-the-sky. Those days are long over for this neighborhood.
Great art grows in the cracks and crevices of society, like weeds; not in it’s guilded halls. Unfortunately, and thanks to Bloomberg, there are very few of these moldy, shadowed buildings for such great art to incubate. Warhol certainly didn’t create his great art in such a place. He did it in a vacant warehouse.