You will find no comfort here...

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...You will instead confront my activist art attacking the issues of abortion, workers’ rights, school shootings, bullying, religious evil, homophobia, climate change, MAGA, Fascism, and more. 

 

Expressionism influences these works, where vivid colors and nature create tension when contrasting against current causes. As a queer artist in San Francisco, I take liberal, substantive, and provocative positions…proudly. Every painting contains something personal to me, and many will feel personal to you too.

 

My narrative art tells the stories of marginalized peoples, where subliminal messages often transcend what can be seen merely in the painting itself. You will view injustices committed by others and injustices ignored, if not perpetrated, by you (and me). 

 

This disturbing subject matter challenges me to paint what seems unpaintable. I create each work to immediately and viscerally impact you, then reward you with conflicting effects after longer concentration. My art burrows into your mind and then crawls out at 3 am on dark, rainy mornings, when you are alone in bed obsessing over “if only…”. It is then that I become your favorite painter. 

 

My purpose and responsibility as an artist? To scream these causes with each brush stroke. To reject evangelists of hate and violence and fear. To consume your mind. And, most importantly, to cause brave collective change, through peaceful, powerful protest, voting, donating time and money, coming out, having empathy for diverse others, and raging against right-wing, religious extremism. These are necessary things. 

 

It is our time, our duty, to make a difference…a transformative difference. Not tomorrow, not in a year. Now!

 

Welcome to the Art of Speas. 

 

I do not paint water lilies.

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