Spot on.
I was looking for a show we had a space and we had to come up with a show in Fort Worth
last year and so then I came upon Marianne's work.
The first painting that really struck me was this tall lone figure over here.
She studied, she grew up in Chicago and early on she took some classes from the Art Institute
of Chicago.
She got some scholarships to go there and then they moved to Texas.
She did a lot of classes in the Dallas Museum of Art with well-known Dallas painters like
Otis Dozier and Jerry Bywaters.
She didn't go get her master's degree until she was 69 at the University of Texas at Dallas.
She studied with a well-known painter who was teaching there at the time, Kazooia Sakai.
So anyway, so we found Marianne's work.
We had a show.
We discovered Allison who was speaking through the ages on similar topics and kind of brought
them together and they kind of, this is the second show we've had like this where these
paintings kind of speak to each other and so with that I want to introduce Allison.
The collage for me represents societal subconscious and how we have to cope day in and day out
with the bombardment of the media and how that bombardment and sort of the fleeting
way that catastrophic and death has presented desensitizes us to the point where we forget
that all these people died yesterday.
Something else has presented us to us in the media.
And something I learned recently that I thought was really interesting.
There are only six corporations that have control, 90% of the media in the United States.
I don't know if you all knew that, I did not know that, six, that's my control, it's me.
So Disney's one of them actually, one of the six, GE, Time Warner, Viacom, I can't remember.
Yes.
Anyway, so the painting and my pieces represent current day.
So I use urban settings, sort of the hustle and bustle of every day and how we go about
our everyday business while we're constantly thinking about all this stuff that's being
thrown at us, all the media bombarding us with all this information.
And a lot of our choices are guided by the media.
So when you make a choice, you have to think about those six corporations are guiding you
to choose certain things in your life.
So is this really my choice or am I being influenced by Disney, GE or whoever is throwing
stuff at me that day?
