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First Lady Fantasy
The Citizenship Projects were first conceived in New York for an exhibition in Helsinki in 2001.
Here are some earlier images from the original series and its evolution to the Ugly American Tour in Berlin, 2006
and now destined to be my featured exhibition for ArtBasel Miami where it will be premiered to the modern art world.
First Lady Fantasy
mixed media collage with acrylic on stretched canvas
60 x 48 inches
Patriot exhausted defending the President
mixed media collage with oil on board framed
9 x 11 inches
The Accidental Patriot
mixed media collage with acrylic on stretched canvas
48 x 36 inches
Oracle for the Economic Outlook
mixed media collage with acrylic on canvas board
20 x 16 inches
The American Sister
mixed media collage with oil on stretched caanvas
20 x 16 inches
Opposition Leader
mixed media collage with oil on found object
20 x 16 inches framed
artist remembers a story about guards in front of a classroom (2000)
acrylic on aquarelle
AC
The Patriots (2000)
acrylic on aquarelle
AC
original citizenship project (2000)
acrylic on canvas panels framed
destroyed in Hurricane Ike 2008
lack of imagination (2006)
acrylic on canvas unstretched
AC
paul the postal worker (2000)
acrylic on stretched canvas
AC
american foreign policy (2008)
collage on canvas panel
AC
secretary of the treasury (2000)
enamel on paper
AC
detail
$275. framed
$3750.
gallery wrap
$525. framed
$475. unframed
$575. framed
The Tease
mixed media collage acrylic on canvas
80 x 36 inches unframed
$6,000 unstretched
Tea Party Outsider
mixed media collage with acrylic
20 x 24 inches stretched canvas
$600 unframed
Proclamation Affirmation
mixed media collage with acrylic on canvas board
20 x 16 inches
$475. framed
FIRST LADY FANTASY
From property to citizen to prisoner to patriot
This is my brown story about my confusing path to freedom.
At the back of the bus looking out the window with my headphones on
My unwanted world turns so slowly as
I count the cars going by too fast, like the blurry days of my life
Son of a slave in the land of the free. Everybody knows it but pretends to forget…
So you made me invisible except at night
You only see me when you hold your purse tighter as I pass you by avoiding eye contact.
Urge to frighten
Then serve some time in seclusion to work on my PhD in crime
I know you and I both think
I was born in Kenya
But no. My home of the brave is
Right here. In your town.
I live in a bitter box behind the Beauty Supply on Martin Luther King Boulevard
At the corner of Mountaintop Avenue
stages of my life marked by paperwork and case numbers...
I yearn for an Independence Day that will never come
Au natural in the plein aire, hungry and dirty and smelling like pee
Counting cars going by instead of sheep I yearn to sleep
I repeat the pledge of allegiance by broken english memory to get to my American Dream
Shamelessly I succumb to the relief of my First Lady Fantasy
I AM A MAN. Dammit. I AM A MAN
Tony Wynn,
Miami
July 4th 2011
miss puerto rico (2005)
oil & acrylic on stretched canvas
AC
