Summer in the City is a monograph of a series of paintings that apposes self-portraits as First Ladies with guns and fun-in-the-sun. By combining handguns with traditional summer pleasures such as reading, swimming, biking, or baseball, Summer in the City takes the American obsession with packing heat to its logical and darkly humorous conclusion. Sadly, this work becomes more relevant each day.
In addition to reproductions of all thirty paintings, the monograph includes an essay by curator Yulia Tikhonova and foreward by Balinda Fiebiger of Enlightening Publishers, who conceived the book --
I felt the need to publish this series of paintings in a monograph, so the work could be seen by more people than in just a fleeting gallery experience.
See inside Summer in the City on blurb -- blurb.com/b/6590654-summer-in-the-city