Bring in the Reality

This collaborative effort reflects Dread Scott’s and Kyle Goen’s shared commitment to melding artistic practice with activism. Both artists work in a variety of mediums – painting, printing, installation, among others – to address themes of social justice and political struggle. “We are the 99%,” the ubiquitous political slogan coined in 2012 during the Occupy movement, references the inequitable concentration of wealth among the top earning 1% in the United States. Scott and Goen take the slogan a step further with their multi-lingual graphic prints, We are the 99% (English, Arabic and Spanish), to bring the Occupy movement into solidarity with the Arab Spring revolts across the Middle East and the popular uprisings in Europe.

http://www.dreadscott.net/ http://www.kylegoen.net/
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We are the 99% (English, Arabic, Spanish), 2011 Screen prints 21 x 16 in. each; 26.75 x 20.75 in. framed Edition 7 of 7. Photo: Courtesy of the artists and No Longer Empty 

Exhibitions

Bring in the Reality
2015