Tahoe Activist Artists
We are a community of Tahoe artists who formed in 2016, in response to the social and political climate of our time to work toward a more compassionate world.
Lost Property
April 27, 2022
Lost Property (2018) Oil on Canvas 40 x 30″ “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” I organized and curated an art exhibition with my group, the Tahoe Activist Artists last year, entitled ‘We the People: Visualize a World of Conversation and Connection’. One of the …
Compassionem/Pieta
April 27, 2022
Pieta / Compassionem (2017) Oil on Canvas 40 x 60″ My decision to paint the ‘Pietà’ came after reading a piece by George Saunders on the role of artists at times like these: “…the people making a lot of these Trump initiatives don’t seem able to imagine the actual victims of their programs….So those of …
Harriet Tubman
April 27, 2022
Harriet Tubman Oil on Canvas 40 x 40″ Collection of the Huey P. Newton Foundation “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman This larger-than-life portrait of Harriet Tubman is painted in …
The Beginning of the Tahoe Activist Artists
April 27, 2022
The helplessness and shock I experienced after the 2016 election triggered a cycle of creativity I haven’t experienced since I was a student. I picked up an old canvas, and started to paint with no clear intention, just an energy. Two hours later, a larger than life Albert Einstein was looking down at me, his …
Pieta/Compassionem Oil on Canvas 40×60″
April 27, 2022
Pieta / Compassionem (2017)Oil on Canvas 40 x 60″ My decision to paint the ‘Pietà’ came after reading a piece by George Saunders on the role of artists at times like these: “…the people making a lot of these Trump initiatives don’t seem able to imagine the actual victims of their programs….So those of us …
Marie Curie
April 27, 2022
Marie CurieOil on Canvas 40 x 40″ Collection of Linda and Jeff Reichel “Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.”Marie Curie Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman …
Harriet Tubman
April 27, 2022
Harriet TubmanOil on Canvas 40 x 40″ Collection of the Huey P. Newton Foundation “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman This larger-than-life portrait of Harriet Tubman is painted in oils …
John Muir
April 27, 2022
John MuirOil on Canvas 40 x 40″ “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe” John Muir This painting is done in one colour – raw umber (with a little black). It is essentially an extended underpainting (‘pentimento’) – this is how all of …
Syria
March 15, 2022
Pieta / Compassionem (2017)Oil on Canvas 40 x 60″ My decision to paint the ‘Pietà’ came after reading a piece by George Saunders on the role of artists at times like these: “…the people making a lot of these Trump initiatives don’t seem able to imagine the actual victims of their programs….So those of us …