Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works
The Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project at Homeboy Industries is an ongoing relational project which blends collaged individual narratives created by formerly gang-involved youth with my Bullet Blossoms series. Participants tell their stories through their own photographs, original art, text and unconventional objects. Then, with direction from the participants about where to aim, I shoot and paint poppy blossoms around the "exit wounds" to suggest healing & hope co-existing with violence and despair. Twelve original works from the project were on view at the Hi-Lite Project Space from March 19 - April 14, 2011. All proceeds benefitted Homeboy Industries.
Exit Wounds continues in 2012 to include a large scale collaborative mural project in Boyle Heights.
Selected works are also on exhibit throughout Los Angeles as part of the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s Folk Art Everywhere program. For more information about this relational art project, please contact Nancy at julep70@me.com. To make a donation to Homeboy Industries, please go to: Homeboy Industries
Press
LA Times: Art sale and exhibition will benefit Homeboy Industries
Huffington Post: Exit Wounds Exhibition Tells Stories of Violence and Hope in Los Angeles
Freedom TRU ART
Detail (Freedom Tru Art)
Renegade
Detail (Renegade)
East Los
Three Points of Zen
East Side Story
Guerrilla Tuff
Confused Patriot
Deep-rooted
Change of Heart
Reverse Bullet Blossoms (multi-colored)