Premiering at Dances With Films · Monday June 22 · 4:00 PM
TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
Premiering at Dances With Films · Monday June 22 · 4:00 PM · TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
About the Film
They say, "Never meet your heroes" — but for guerrilla street artist Robbie Conal, meeting legendary painter Leon Golub changed everything.
I Paint Monsters pairs two of America's most defiant political artists in a fierce defense of democracy. From Golub's visceral war canvases to Conal's midnight poster raids, filmmakers Ben Woolverton and Anne Herlihy capture an activist spirit that refuses to be silenced.
The Artists
“I make ugly pictures of ugly people doing ugly things.”
Street Artist & Political Satirist
Robbie Conal
Since the 1980s, Robbie Conal has been plastering the streets of America with his grotesque, unflinching portraits of politicians and power brokers. His wheat-paste posters — distributed overnight by volunteer crews — have become a defining form of American political art.
“I want to make the viewer uncomfortable. That's the point.”
Painter of Power & Violence
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (1922–2004) spent decades painting mercenaries, interrogators, and the machinery of state violence on a monumental scale. His raw, abraded canvases — figures scraped back to their essence — remain among the most morally urgent works in American art history.
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Premiere
Join us for the World Premiere at the Dances With Films festival — Monday, June 22 at 4:00 PM at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
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