A New Alliance

Art Hazelwood

"A New Alliance" is a portrait of the two western world "leaders" who are currently attempting a coup to, a takeover of the western world and establish themselves as kings. Done in greens and browns Hazelwood depicts Russia's Putin peeking his head up from a tank which is crushing his foes. He is manipulating a large marionette of the U.S. president Donald J. Trump who is clutching a golf club and looking at his animator for direction as his long tie rests over the cannon. A large bag of US dollars floats in the background, behind Putin.

Art Hazelwood continues a long tradition with his printmaking - commenting on current events using a visual language. Honoré Daumier, Thomas Rowlandson, and Francisco Goya are just a few of the printmakers that had a major influence on the public of the time, sometimes masking the content with the images to avoid official wrath, sometimes holding nothing back, parodying and satirizing the culture, subcultures and individuals of the day.

Art Hazelwood, printmaker, painter, muralist, impresario, educator, independent curator, and political satirist and activist, was born in Concord, Massachusetts on May 22, 1961. He studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz and received his B.A. degree in Fine Arts in 1983. After graduation, Hazelwood travelled extensively in Asia, and lived in Vienna and then the American Southwest before settling in San Francisco, California in 1993 where he continues to teach printmaking and work for social justice.