Artist Stephen Seemayer  exhibits new works inspired by the tumultuous two months of Occupy L.A., when activists took over the City Hall lawn demanding greater economic equality for the 99%.

During October and November 2011, Seemayer and his wife, filmmaker Pamela Wilson, spent time nearly every day talking with and documenting the occupiers who were camped out in tents and makeshift shelters around L.A.’s Civic Center. The protestors were showing solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in New York and Occupys accross the globe, all pressing for fairness and compassion for working class Americans. They urged a shift in values and a closing of the rift between the wealthiest in our society and the 99%.

Seemayer’s energetic collages incorporate the slogans and signage that got the occupiers’ messages across, along with photographs and graphic stencils of revolutionary symbolism. Each is built on a reconstructed front page of the Los Angeles Times for each day of the occupation and for the last night when thousands of police in riot gear and hazmat suits stormed the site and evicted the protestors.
The exhibit opens at the District Gallery in Downtown L.A. on Thursday, April 25, 2013, and runs through May 26.