Category: Paintings for social awareness

• Breaking through.

  

    “Breaking through”, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021, is a two-sided black-and-white minimalistic self-portrait about breaking through the barrier of White Supremacy. The white barrier seems impenetrable and all-consuming, and the only ticket is convincing Supremacists that non-Whites are enough like them to warrant acceptance. But acceptance is neither a given, nor…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 1, 2021

  2021 paintings, abstract figurative paintings, Paintings for social awareness, Paintings with political themes, Self-portrait, White Supremacy

  abstract figurative paintings, Adam Donaldson Powell’s self-portraits, Paintings with political themes, White Supremacy

• COVID-19 — fini les bises à la pelle !

  ”COVID-19 — fini les bises à la pelle !”, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm., 2020, is a self-portrait of myself hesitating to kiss my own death skull, and is surrounded by a ring of blue roses. The blue roses symbolize the unattainable; here, an unfulfilled love-moment that is even too complicated to be…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  October 22, 2020

  abstract figurative paintings, Coming attractions!, CoronaVirus, COVID-19, On death and dying, Paintings for social awareness, Self-portraits

  COVID-19 paintings, Self-portrait; abstract figurative paintings