Normalizing Hate Speech
“Donald Trump defended white nationalist Neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville in August of 2017 by stating that this horde included “some very fine people”. These plain, racist words speak for themselves. My artwork was designed to show the grotesque comment for just what it is – a nazi salute from the President of the United States.“
-Robert Russell
Learn the Facts About Donald Trump’s Constant Ties with Hate Groups and Lack of Pushback Against Nazi Extremist
Time after time, Donald Trump refuses to denounce Nazis and hate speech of all forms. Instead he has called anti-fascists the enemy of the people. He has a long history of perpetuating false rumors and racist tropes. Including spreading the claims that Barack Obama was not an American citizens to defending the racist neo-Nazi and KKK style rally of “Unite the Right”. He has attempted to normalize this type of racist, anti-Semitic and bigoted hate speech from the White House by declaring there were “very fine people, on both sides.” Forgetting that America is supposed to be only the side that fights facism and supports tolerance worldwide.
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• Trump used social media to amplify white men yelling “white power!” giving them a larger platform to spread white supremacism. – Source: CNN
• Trump criticized NASCAR for banning the confederate flag even as the NASCAR rallied around Bubba Wallace after a noose was found in his car bay. – Source: NY Mag
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Trump has doubled down on defending Confederate statues, calling them “Great American Heritage,” – Source: ABC News
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Trump was censured by Twitter for tweeting a threat of “serious force” at protestors. – Source: Washington Post
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Donald Trump as made more than 14 different false claims about Barack Obama’s being a US Citizen. – Source: CNN
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Robert Russell
Los Angeles, CA
Artist Info
Robert Russell (born 1971) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He completed his MFA at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2006. Russell earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Through the use of a frequently subdued color palette, Robert Russell’s representational paintings explore concepts of identity, memory, desire and authenticity. Often self-referential in nature, existential questions regarding the role of an image and the process of memory and imagination arise. Themes include (among others) art books, portraits of Robert Russell that are not the artist, pigs, children and most recently clouds. With his most recent cloudforms, Russell both holds on to his past and expands on it. His previous two exhibitions”Book Paintings and Revisits” explored the visual tropes of the artist monograph and continued his conceptual interest in authority, authenticity, and iconography. Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi Gallery, The Cabin LA, LA><ART (Los Angeles), François Ghebaly Gallery (LA), Osmos (New York, NY) and Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, BC Canada) where he was also an artist in residence. He has been included in numerous group shows in Los Angeles including Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Material Press MOCA LA and M+B Gallery.
