ROZ DIMON'S drawings of Abraham Lincoln 2020-2021

LINCOLN #1 "I Deeply Disapprove."

LINCOLN #2,"Deeply Disturbing."

LINCOLN #3 "I Was Once A Boy."

LINCOLN #4 "Nah."

LINCOLN #5 "Sad."

LINCOLN #6 "abstractly NO."

LINCOLN #7 "Maybe."

LINCOLN #8 "I Hear Ya'."

LINCOLN #9 "I See You."

LINCOLN #10 "No."

LINCOLN #11 "Not Done."

LINCOLN #12 "Merry WHAT."

THE LINCOLNS

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

During the period beginning December 2020 and extending through the 2021 inauguration, I pondered what I might do as an artist to bring comfort, hope, and thoughtfulness to the ongoing political climate of intolerance and hatred. I happened upon a Wikipedia photo (1863, public domain) of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner and fell in love with a face full of vision, suffering, steadfastness . . . a face offering multiple interpretations simultaneously . . . One that looked almost like a civil war battlefield itself. That was the beginning of my LINCOLN series . . . about 18 of them, mostly black and white drawings, except for the final BLUE . . . Drawn the night before the 2021 inauguration, Lincoln's bow tie has gone blue - his whole visage in blue tones.

These works are drawn in various media from pencil to charcoal to using my digital pen and various brush strokes - inclusion of digital media brings the man to our age, and our age to the man in a way that speaks distinctly to this time.