Denmark Vesey: Painting Outside The Box

Monday, November 08, 2010

Painting Outside The Box

Justine Lai said ...

“In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives.”

Justine graduated from Stanford in 2008.

7 comments:

Intellectual Insurgent said...: Secular fundamentalism in action.; Nov 8, 2010, 3:56:00 PM
Pink said...: Um ok, that's just skanky.; Nov 8, 2010, 6:00:00 PM
Anonymous said...: lol!@Pink!! It's provocative for sure, haha!; Nov 9, 2010, 12:55:00 AM
that dude said...: Ah...the quiet, artsy freaks.; Nov 9, 2010, 10:40:00 AM
large, pork-eating, $11/hr, red-jacketed TSA goon said...: The one with Lincoln reminds me so much of you, DV. What a great time we had, baby.; Nov 9, 2010, 11:03:00 PM
Lola Gets said...: That was just gross.; Nov 10, 2010, 3:32:00 AM
Constructive Feedback said...: Interesting.

Some of the early presidents who were SLAVE MASTERS had their way with female EQUAL HUMAN BEINGS.

It is interesting that the artist has the leisure to paint a hypothetical rather than suffering from forced rape.; Nov 10, 2010, 5:36:00 AM

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