William Greiner print charity auction!!!!

I am auctioning three small exhibition prints of a Louisiana Marsh scene , to benefit the children of Gordon Jones. Gordon was one of the 11 oil field workers to perish in the Gulf of Mexico on Deep Water Horizon rig.

Link:

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GULF PRAYER

It was a Gulf of water

that became an ocean of oil

turning from blue to brown,

like it was liquid soil.

And all the creatures

could not see what it

would end up to be,

including me.

We closed our eyes

to remember how beautiful

it was a Gulf of water.

You see you can't walk on water.

And as the nightmares begin to end,

we will wait and wait and hope in pray.

The Gulf, The Gulf will live another day.

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WINGFOOT

WINGFOOT, Baton Rouge LA 2010 from the series AUTOMATIC

Growing up in a family that sold auto parts for a living, we were strangely uninterested in America's car culture. AUTOMATIC is my latent response to it.

NOMA REDUX

Text by Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, Visual Arts curator, Elizabeth Weinstein.

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Installation images for the exhibitions FALLEN PARADISE (New Orleans 1995-2005) and LAND's END (Baton Rouge 2007-2010).

The New Orleans Museum of Art

April 15 - July 3, 2010

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OIL SLICK

Driller, Ohio 1991
Oil Tank and Drilling Pipe in Corn Field, Ohio 1991
Drilling Rig at Dawn, Ohio 1991
Drilling Equipment, Ohio 1991
Lone Cornstalk and Drilling Pipe, Ohio 1991
Corn Field and Drilling Pipe, Ohio 1991

In 1991, I visited a friend in rural Ohio. Her dad was an oil man , still drilling shallow wells in the fields of Ohio. Looking back on these images now, I am not as comfortable knowing this was being done in the midst of food crops.

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