Artist:
Address:
E. 7th Pl. (corner of S. Santa Fe) Los Angeles, CA 90021
Size:
N/A
Medium:
Acrylic
Date:
2013
Type:
Graffiti / Street Art
Political
Description / Interpretation:
Cleon Peterson is an LA-based artist and graphic designer whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolizing a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan: an anxiety-riddled world, where violence is the status quo and only the strongest survive. An amazing feat of emotion given that the piece is just two colors.
Photos © Isabel Rojas-Williams