Bay View Gallery Night: The Hide House
I found this small exhibition at the Hide House Studios in Bay View, Milwaukee, during Bay View Gallery Night. The work was done by a couple student artists living in the Hide House Lofts, whose names were not given. The show consists of three enormous paintings depicting three Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump, Scott Walker, and Mike Huckabee, with their faces painted as clowns.
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I thought the pieces made a very bold statement, and although Bay View is generally a very liberal area, I could tell not everybody at the show agreed with what the paintings were saying. I also thought the idea was executed very well, it was something that had the potential to come out looking very crude or over-done, but the artists did it with a clean painting style and some level of maturity in their approach.
The paintings were accompanied by small sticker-versions for sale, featuring each painting along with a slogan like HUCK NO and SCOTT STOP.