Molly Crabapple is a artist and writer based out of New York. She is something of a political activist as well, she had been arrested during the Occupy Wall Street movements in 2011. These pictures are a part of her "Shell Game" series, a series of nine 4-foot by 6-foot allegorical paintings to commemorate the chaos of a year of revolution.
Beyond the Occupy Wall Street movement, the pieces cover Goldman Sachs, Anonymous, the health insurance crisis, the British anti-cuts protests, the American debt crisis, the Tunisian revolution, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and the M15 movement in Spain.
This series and other works can be found on her website, found at:
http://mollycrabapple.com/shell-game/
Good post. Interesting.
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