Gaceta Callejera: America, Open for Business

 

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)

2020  

color screenprint 

18 5/8 x 12 3/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

2 of 18  

Text within image: Gaceta Callejera. / America, Open for Business 

 

sturdy cream wove 

published 

artist 

ARHA219 

$150.00 

In his article “An Artist for the Moment,” Paul Von Blum describes this screenprint by Art Hazelwood: “America, Open for Business” depicts Trump and his capitalist cronies demanding the reopening of American commerce, despite the overwhelming human cost, with now more than 150,000 dead and counting. At the top of the composition is a large money-bag figure, revealing the real interests at work: large corporations pulling the puppet strings of Trump and the captive Republican Party. The vulture on top is reminiscent of the biting 19th century cartoons of Thomas Nast. This work, like the others, is unapologetically unsubtle, a historic feature of effective political art.