Bay Area artist’s portraits serve as backdrop to Black Lives Matter movement
http://www.sfexaminer.com/bay-area-artists-portraits-serve-backdrop-black-lives-matter-movement/
The black and white images — all faces — look like cartooned saints. And, like saints, they are all of the dead. But these so-called “martyrs” were slain by police and have become the faces of a movement born to confront the brutality of law enforcement.....
The portraits can be found everywhere: plastered on city walls, printed on T-shirts and in the hands of activists at various meetings and protests. The clean, thick black lines describe each face, turning them into something more than reproductions of the dead....
Oree Originol began the project Justice for Our Lives in 2014 after he visited an Oscar Grant memorial at the Fruitvale BART station. Grant was fatally shot at the station on Jan. 1, 2009 by a BART police officer who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter....
Since then, the thin and soft spoken 31-year-old Angelino, has completed dozens of portraits, which are free to download on his many social media sites. In all, Jimenez has created 49 portraits of the dead, many of which are from the Bay Area.
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