Welcome to History Imagined!
Art that reflects our American Experience
Welcome to History Imagined! Here at History Imagined we are dedicated to presenting "Art that reflects our American Experience." We have created a "gallery" where we showcase select artist's works to the public. Visit us often as we will be adding NEW artists and works of note for your consideration and purchase. Thank you for visiting and please enjoy our Gallery!
Featured Works:
Our First Series of works were prepared by an artist that loves and respects Barack and Michelle Obama. A huge supporter of our new President, he was inspired by the challenge issued when Barack Obama asked all Americans to believe, not just in his ability to bring about CHANGE in Washington... he asked each of you to believe in your own ability to bring about that change. The artist has spent the last 20 years doing his best to speak Truth to Power. Now, that Power is speaking Truth to us. The Obama's are on the job, they are doing the people's work and they've asked us, the American people, to join them.
Show your support for the President, display these fine works proudly!
"I Am Not A Perfect Man"
Portrait of Barack Obama
27"x39" heavyweight lithograph, 80lb coated cover stock. While supplies last - Artist Signed prints - "O 2009" with a metallic silver Sharpie.
Curator's Statement:
Inspired by Obama's humble words "I am not a perfect man, I will not be a perfect president", this Obama portrait is a montage of images celebrating the genius of a system designed for change, the greatness of the American right to protest, to hope for and to vote for change. The vortex encompasses the arc of the civil rights movement, the campaign, inauguration and hundreds of protest images from across the political spectrum.
"Recovery.gov"
Portrait of Michelle Obama.
27"x39" heavyweight lithograph, 80lb coated cover stock. While supplies last - Artist Signed prints - "O 2009" with a metallic silver Sharpie.
Curator's Statement:
Michelle Obama as Rosie the Riveter revises a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in war factories during World War II. These women took new jobs in place of the male workers who went to war to defend our America homeland. Seen in films and posters from that era the most famous featured Rosie rolled up sleeves and rallying cry to all Americans of "We can do it"! The character is now considered a feminist icon in the US, and is heralded as woman's economic power to come.
"3000 Faces"
Our self portrait
39"x25 3/4" heavyweight lithograph, 80lb matte coated cover stock. Unsigned, Limited Supply available.
Curator's Statement:
The latest, high def version of the vision. Printed 06/08. There are over 3200 unique faces. Scope: anyone famous or infamous from any country in the world since 1900. Created by "crowd sourcing". This never ending work in progress began in 1986 as a photo-realistic inked ocean wave of people. Inspired by a dream I had in which the ocean embodied everyone who had ever been alive or would be. In 1999 it evolved into a collage of 2000 faces... and now over 3000 faces of famous and infamous twentieth century people from around the world. It is a continuous work in progress, an experiential teacher. The people are chosen by popular demand and are randomly positioned. It's a cultural Rorschach, a reference and bias indicator. "3000 Faces" is the ultimate conversation piece; this work transcends generational and geographical lines
"Democracy"
27"x39" heavyweight lithograph, 80lb coated cover stock. Unsigned, Limited Supply available.
Curator's Statement:
Originally a collage of corporate logos created in 2000. In 2003 the artist added the Jasper Johns inspired 13 flag vortex and made a lithograph that received international press and quickly sold out. This digitally re-mastered version, based on that lithograph, is far sharper in detail. Considering Barack Obama's struggle to put the people's interest's ahead corporate influence in Washington, "Democracy" is as relevant today, as it was when I made it to describe Bush's plutocracy.
In a review of a February 2003 anti war show curetted by the center for the study of political graphics at the Track 16 gallery in Santa Monica, CA., art critic Christopher Knight, of the Los Angeles Times, described "Democracy" as: "The best of these posters are, like all good agitprop, graphically simple, linguistically blunt and conceptually resonant. The Most recent poster is so new the ink might still be wet -a glossy poster signed by "O" and dated 2003. Thirteen nested American flags, amplifying a famous painting by Jasper Johns, together create a jazzy, patriotic field for the printed word "democracy." Each letter is compromised from a fragment of an immediately recognizable commercial logo, starting with Disney and Enron and concluding with CNN and Yahoo. A government, in which corporations hold the ruling power, rather than the people, is asserted with terse visual wit."