Artists Against Gun Violence
May 29th, 2018 - Washington, DC
Washington Post: In the galleries: A visual rallying cry against gun violence
By Mark Jenkins March 30, 2018
After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, Charles Krause/Reporting Fine Art organized an exhibition on the same theme as this one. The two shows play many of the same notes, although the Petworth array has fewer explicitly political works. It does include Ellen Hill’s small coffin covered in miniature $50 bills and Cheryl Edward’s target, drawn with bullet shells on a painted American flag. Cory Oberndorfer makes a brutal connection between the shapes of two very different objects, wrapping a Teddy bear in a bandoleer outfitted with crayons rather than bullets.