"Target Demographic" Original Canvas

"Target Demographic"

This painting started out as a 2008 Barack Obama election poster of sorts; the familiar gun-range target figures were not holding hands originally, and the one on the left was wearing an "I Voted" badge. However, on the same ballot as Obama in California was Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in the state, which passed, unbelievably. I immediately revised the image to reflect my outrage and sadness at the continued cultural hostility--and political popularity--of targeting the LGBT community.

The image has taken on a new meaning for me as the coronavirus pandemic has swept the world. The new target demographic is everyone, and human contact makes targets of us all.

Matte acrylic on canvas. Dimensions: 84" x 60" x 2.25". Date: 2008

(A t-shirt version of this painting is available in the store as well.)

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NOTE: I'm not especially interested in selling this original canvas, so I've intentionally set it as Sold Out. However, I do want it visible in the store as it provides thematic context for washlively.com images and merchandise (Most of the digital tableaux on washlively.com have a hand painted, large format canvas counterpart.)

That said, if you're seriously interested in this canvas, please contact me.

As with all of my OXXO work, this painting is made with very saturated, high-key, matte acrylic paint. There's absolutely no sheen on any of the colors, so there's no glare under intense light.

This is NOT a mockup. This is a physical canvas that I stretched and painted on a frame I built myself. There's been no Photoshop manipulation of the painting whatsoever other than to isolate it from the background and studio props, which have been desaturated and blurred for emphasis. The colors have not been enhanced and are as bright and solid as they appear in the photos.

Props are not for sale.

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