Trickle Down (2005)
18"x 17", edition of 20
Art Hazelwood is a San Francisco artist, curator (person who selects content for presentation, ie museum), and activist. Most of his work is focused on the protest of the Iraq War and of the plight of the homeless.
His work has also been recognized and published by the San Francisco Chronicle who protrayed Hazelwood as an "artist [who] vents his anger in political linocuts".
In order to make his prints, he spends hours and hours etching away into sheets of copper. Once he is ready to print his designs, he inks the copper and presses it on paper.
In this piece known as "Trickle Down", Hazelwood shows the unequal distribution of money by presenting a toteum pole with the rich and powerful at the top and the poor majority at the bottom.
This piece really relates to what we are doing in class with the art of linocuting and I found this piece- along with the artist- to be a great example of illustrating the simplicity and powerfulness of such a technique.
His Prints are shown in a variaty of places:
*Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
*N.Y. Public Library
*Stanford Special Collections Library
*The Library of Congress
*RSDI Museum of Art
*The Whitney Museum of American Art
http://warnockfinearts.com/Art_Hazelwood.htm
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