A Scattering of Tribes

 

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)

2017  

color screenprint 

23 x 17 3/8" image size 

pencil, lower left 

A/P 

pencil dated and editioned 

 

heavy cream wove 

published 

artist 

ARHA194 

SOLD

A tongue-in-cheek commentary on neo liberalism, borrowing from the iconic psychadelic poster art style of the 1960s--which remains a symbol the subversive, political side of mid-20th century art and music--i.e., a poster for the end of the "dream". Listed on either side of the main image, as bands once were, are the names of incidents, economic strategies, and corporations that came to represent post-hippie America from the 1970s to today: Manson cult murders, trickle-down economics, Bush war years 1 & 2, climate chaos, alt-right; death at Altamont, vietnam, welfare reform, citizen's united, corporate rule, WalMart. "Our Dream of a World of Peace and Love is No More / We Must Dream a New Dream".