Peace Tower

I was invited to provide a piece for the Peace Tower project which is installed through October 1 at the Chicago Cultural Center. The Tower is really worth seeing and I am proud of Chicago for producing this in such a prominent venue.

The first Peace Tower was organized by Mark di Suvero in 1966 in Los Angeles and included works by Rothko, Lichtenstein, Judd, Golub and many others.

It was revived for the Whitney Biennal last year. Here is a wonderful website about the project.

Here is text from the Department of Cultural Affairs; "A Peace Tower project, created by di Suvero for this exhibition, will stand in the Chicago Rooms’ second gallery. In response to a call for participation, local artists, activists, veterans, military personnel and documentary photographers are now contributing artwork about peace and protest that will hang on di Suvero’s steel structure. The Peace Tower was originally created in 1966 in Los Angeles as a response to the Vietnam War, with 400 artists participating in the project. It was later re-created in 2006 for the Whitney Biennal in New York City as a response to the war in Iraq. "

My "Piece" is Installed Next to Skreneski's Portrait of Studs Terkel (I'm humbled on many levels). It's made with braille paper.

Peace = Justice, 2007, Braile New York Times Article on Deployment in Iraq with Collage on Board. 24" x 24"

I only had two days to complete the piece but I'm happy with the agit prop quality. Here's the verso (cut-out).