Fred Harper's Art

claytoncubitt:

“The Egyptian-American activist speaks out on the dangers women still face in a changing Mideast” (portrait by me)

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…she often gets Hieronymus Bosch comparisons.

But if you showed most Bosch paintings to a small child, he or she would run away crying. They’re scary, and they’re supposed to be. Molly’s paintings, from a distance, are gorgeous and cheerful to look at; you often don’t realize they’re disturbing until you look closely. A child would look at one of her 6’x4’ paintings and spend all day staring at what looks like a fun story about balloon-wielding cats and police-force dogs and masked rabbits and little birds working on laptops, in Arabic no less. You’d have to be a grownup to realize the subjects of her giant, impassioned panoramas are dissident bloggers in Tunisia and the rise of rightist movements in Greece and the Occupy protests. To a kid, they’d just look like God’s very own circus posters, or a bunch of gorgeous, incomprehensible hieroglyphs whose only purpose was to be looked at.

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“Molly Crabapple- Occupy’s Greatest Artist” by Matt Taibbi

(sorting through all the press Shell Game got, now that we’re taking this down tomorrow.  Taibbi has been one of my favorite journalists for a decade, and this article he wrote about my work means more than I can say”

(via mollycrabapple)

Very proud of my girl!