Pro-Bush goons terrorise San Francisco gallery owner
Morrissey Breen
by LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder
of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu
Ghraib prison — a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who
apparently objected to a painting that depicts U.S. soldiers torturing
Iraqi prisoners.
The assault outside the Capobianco gallery in the city's North Beach
district Thursday night was the worst in a string of verbal and
physical attacks directed at Lori Haigh since the artwork was
installed at her gallery on May 16.
San Francisco police are investigating and have stepped up patrols
around the gallery. But Haigh decided to close the gallery
indefinitely, citing concern for the safety of her two children, ages
14 and 4, who often accompanied her to work.
Guy Colwell's painting, titled "Abuse," depicts three U.S. soldiers
leering at a group of naked men in hoods with wires connected to their
bodies. The one in the foreground has a blood-spattered American flag
patch on his uniform. In the background, a soldier in sunglasses
guards a blindfolded woman.
The painting was part of a show of the Berkeley artist's work that
mostly featured pastel-colored abstracts.
Colwell stopped by the gallery Friday, but refused to discuss his work
or the reaction to it, saying only, "I'm sorry if this is putting
pressure on Lori."
Two days after the painting went up in a front window, someone threw
eggs and dumped trash on the doorstep. Haigh said she did not think to
connect it to the events at Baghdad's notorious prison until people
started leaving nasty messages and threats on her business answering
machine.
"I think you need to get your gallery out of this neighborhood before
you get hurt," one caller said.
She removed the painting from the window, but the gallery's troubles
received news coverage and the criticism continued. The answering
machine recorded new calls from people accusing her of being a coward
for moving the artwork.
Last weekend, Haigh said a man walked into the gallery, pretended to
scrutinize the painting for a moment, then marched up to her desk and
spat in her face.
On Thursday, someone knocked on the door of the gallery, then punched
Haigh in the face when she stepped outside.
"This isn't art-politics central here at all," Haigh said. "I'm not
here to make a stand. I never set out to be a crusader or a political
activist."
In closing the gallery, Haigh was forced to cancel an upcoming show
featuring counterculture artist Winston Smith.
For Haigh, who opened Capobianco a year and a half ago, having the
chance to work with prominent artists fulfilled a lifelong dream.
"I kept thinking someday I'll have enough of a reputation where I
could bring in my heroes of the art world, people like Guy Colwell
especially," she said.
Haigh has received some expressions of support since closing the
gallery. Her favorite: an e-mail whose writer said, "I'm sure that a
few and dangerous minds don't understand that they have only mimicked
the same perversity this painting had expressed."
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Matthew
nation's resolved anguish over widespread incidents of torture, rape and
murder that flourished to a degree far greater under Sudans rule?
Matthew
someone being tortured and humiliated.
But in your eyes, if someone dear protested their anger at someone profiting
from anothers pain and suffering they are just "Pro-Bush goons"
Grow up.
Patrick Dunford
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Salad
> Gallery Owner Attacked for Iraq Abuse Art
> by LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer
>
> SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder
> of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu
> Ghraib prison — a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who
> apparently objected to a painting that depicts U.S. soldiers torturing
> Iraqi prisoners.
>
Does one really expect knuckle draggers not to use violence against women?
Look at the warmonger list of names and you see none of them fought.
They hate to fight men. Women are easy targets for them. It's all
about domination.
They hate sex. They hate women, call them femi-nazis and like to slap
women around.
They have 1 cm penises. THat's why they need penis extenders like SUVs
and guns. And when they beat up women, they fell tough.