FREEDOM FIGHTERS
Solo Exhibition by Artist Leviticus
Review
C.C. Brown
All the characters loudly cheering for tragedy, as I sat in the far
corner with a diluted latte no sugar, the lost beacon of free speech
and religion lathed the toy water gun fascist guitar killing machine
canvass collage. Juxtaposing rabbi nazi persecutions and filthy like
genocidal imagery, I noticed the artist family self-portraits
decorating gruesome spectacles of gas chamber casualties and cynical
pantomime mockery.
The destabilizing nature of Leviticus dissident counter media icon
portraits and found object collages reminded me of the function of
modern art which is to shock and disrupt. They also reminded me of
censorship and secrecy in a broken culture where freedom of the press
is otherwise restricted. The scripted dinosaur media of the 21st
century promotes secrecy, spinning stories that affect public opinion,
like the race hating bloopers of engineered police brutality, creating
a news media fantasy matrix where we loose touch with reality and we
loose our freedom to be really informed. The role of the press is to
denounce and keep accountability of the political agendas of public
life. The void left by the journalism of a free press, must be
replaced and kept in check by the unrelenting voices of artists, like
Leviticus, like the solitary voices of whistle-blowers in the
alternative media. These counter-folk-heroes must continue to disclose
classified information blowing off the top of covert operations,
leaking secretes inside shadowy government, clearing the tracks of
pestilence with transparency.
Were it not for the emblematic faces of counter-herald media figures
such as Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and the counter top anti
culture hipster coffee shop clients busy sipping Norwegian coffee, I
would think I was in some post war hyperreality buff hearing voices of
freedom heckling the pubic domain, resonating not as enemies of the
state but rather as lovers of freedom, living exceptional lives in an
indifferent world that has slowly surrendered over the right to think
clearly and the right to speak out against abuse.
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Carlos Cuellar Brown
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- Musician, social issues blogger
Freedom Fighters is now on view at Oslo Cafe ,133 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Iconic 'Mitzvah' Bus Found Burned in Brooklyn - NBC New York
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Jun 26, 2017 - InvestigativeHolocaust Relics Sold on Popular Gun Website. The charred shell of the bus was all that remained on Monday. Leviticus Schieer, the owner of the bus, used the vehicle as both anart studio and to transport his two daughters to school. He considers the vehicle a community message on ...jjjj
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"Faithless" 20' in x 30' in oil on canvas
Recent Acquisitions by Magnes Collection at Berkeley University
November, 2014
The painting depicts a Jewish man dressed in religious garb surrounded by Nazi soldiers. It is interpreted from a photo taken at the scene. The Jewish man is in the center, on his bottom left lay fellow Jews that came before. The man is barefoot waiting to be shot. I imagine he questions his faith and wonders where God is in his absolute moment of need.
I use symbolism and color to create dynamic tension and contrast within the painting. The colors are bright and textured drawing one into the picture. By creating a beautiful harmony with line and color the viewer is given a palatable way in which to absorb the image that he/she might otherwise choose to ignore or reject due to the dark nature of the subject.
The blue represents the Arab Muslim world, the Yellow is the rising Sun of the Far East, The red is the Aryan Nazi Ideology. The man stands barefoot on the shadow of the cross representing the Christian world and the Jewish man in the center represents the Jew.
The frame sculpturally extends beyond the painting becoming part of the painting with it’s own message and language. The rawness and slightly unfinished quality represents the raw unfinished quality of humanity itself. The metal pieces nailed to the edges represent the cold hard indifference. The material represents the industrial revolution that made systematic, efficient slaughter possible.
- Leviticus 2014