Today I finished the next piece for "13 Most Wanted." Based on Andy Warhol's installation at the New York pavilion during the 1964 Worlds Fair, the work features 13 paintings done on printed targets used at a gun range. Where Warhol used actual photographs of the NYPD's most wanted criminals, I am painting the faces of my own most wanted. Politicians, celebrities and even a baptist minister are on the list. It is a tongue and cheek reference to thinning the herd. These are people I feel have done more harm than good to society, much like a criminal. The problem with compiling the list is that it has changed according to the days headlines. Of course there were the ringers for the top 13 from the beginning, but some were added after the piece was underway. During the gulf coast oil spill, Tony Hayward made the list with his infamous "I just want my life back" comment. He joins the other completed panels, Rush Limbaugh and Joe Francis, founder of the Girls Gone Wild video empire.
Acrylic on printed target, 40 X 30 inches.
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