This work was produced for the exhibition and event series titled Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination, named after the timely advice from the Black Panthers to the Young Patriots to focus their efforts on organizing their communities. The text is derived from both observations of, and participation in, discourses between different groups of white people in the wake of the multiple murders of unarmed people of color by white police officers. These prints stand in defiance not only of those in power who are perpetrating this horrendous violence, but perhaps even more saliently, in protest of the white communities that continue to passively stand by as these horrors unfold.
In their limited color palette and modest scale, these prints reference protest posters and pamphlets from the mid-1960s, printed on one-color offset presses that were popular amongst activist communities producing low-cost ephemera and radical publications.
The devil does not need an advocate; He is clearly running shit; And he wears blue
Risograph prints, 12.5" x 19" each, 2016
Organize Your Own curated by Daniel Tucker & funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (Philadelphia) and Columbia College (Chicago).