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Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 30 W x 20 H x 0.3 D in
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Travon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida By George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. 10% percent of the sale of this painting will go to the Travon Martin Foundation. The Foundation was established by Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin in March of 2012. Their core mission is to gain fellowship toward personal restoration and ultimately community building. I have been approached by a number of private investors, art collectors, celebrities. If you are interested in owning this iconic historical painting. Keep in mind that " Diddy " has been revealed as the buyer of Kerry James Marshall's record-breaking $21 million painting titled "Past Times"(1997) which sold at Sotheby this year.. Gaze at "Past Times" by Kerry and re-gaze at my painting "Travon Morte" which is based on contemporary times.Please contact the curators at Saatchiart for more info.
Painting:Oil on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 20 H x 0.3 D in
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Home People Perspectives Interview Calendar Video http://indigo.com Art, Black Culture, Books, Chicago, Interview, On November 13, 2019 Chicago’s Author And Artist John Sibley by David Smallwood Prolific artist and author John Sibley John Sibley is an author of eight books and an artist with over 100 paintings to his credit who counts Walter Payton, Mayor Richard Daley, Mike Tyson, basketball player John Salley and the South Side Community Art Center as some of the collectors of his artwork. Sibley’s first book, Bodyslick, is a sci-fi novel about harvesting body parts in the Black community, among other things. His latest tome is called Riding The A-Train With Einstein. Sibley is also a Vietnam vet, an advocate for the homeless, and a bit of a Renaissance man. We chatted recently with John about his life and work. N’DIGO: Background, please. John Sibley: I grew up on Chicago’s West Side, South Side, and in Robbins, Illinois. Graduated from Eisenhower High School and was raised in a blue-collar household. My father was a factory foreman and my mother a classic 1950s housewife. We lived in the LeClaire Courts projects on the Southwest Side. My father played boogie-woogie on his Grand Steinway piano and was offered a gig with the Count Basie band, but he opted to marry my mother and raise a family. We moved to Robbins because it was close to his job. He was a foreman at a plastics company. The poverty I saw in those Black West and Southside communities shaped and molded how I looked at the world. I started to view Black communities with a more political consciousness. I started to view them as if they were colonies. I moved to Aurora later in life because of a job opportunity – I worked 27 years in the private sector as a supervisor for an acoustic company. It was not a creative job, but nuts and bolts. My hands were like sandpaper. There is honor in work. Only in recent modern history have we become specialists. In prior centuries, an artist could do a lot more than paint. They were architects, alchemists, engineers, and scientists. All of my life accomplishments in art and writing are a product of the diversity of my life. Every job I have had. Every encounter with death. The pain of being homeless in the world. All of it contributed to my evolution as an artist and author. Sibley’s Jordan and “Sweetness” paintings.
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