Act of Faith
by Steven Gagnon

Artist: Steven Gagnon

Size: 43 x 33 CM

Year: 2004

Condition: Very good

Frame: See description

Art Movements: other

Signature: Hand Signed

Edition: 100

Price: POA

Added on: 2015-07-28

Medium: Screen-printing

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Numbered and signed (unframed) This work came about when I came to the realization of how the lottery and prayer share certain similarities. To participate in either, one has to have a certain degree of faith. Many people pray and their prayers go unanswered. The same is true with the lottery. Many people play and do not win. Yet they persist to do both by the belief that their actions will grant them the desired results. I found it intriguing to combine these two dissimilar belief systems together through the iconic image of Albert Durer's praying hands and Florida lottery tickets. In this way reflecting the duality that exists in life between high and low culture and intentions

Steven Gagnon

Steven Gagnon grew up in Fort Pierce, FL. He studied at Pepperdine University in California and spent a year abroad in Europe while in college. Upon his return to the U.S., he mentored for three years under artist, Nataly Nijinski. In 1996, he came to Miami Beach for an artist residency and has been based in the city from then on. Since 2005, Gagnon has been creating large scale, interdisciplinary video installations in addition to his work in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. To date, he has created five projects which he has shown at various venues including both 2008 Presidential Conventions, the Fotofest bienniel in Houston, and art fairs in Miami, New York City, Palm Beach, and in the German cities of Berlin and Cologne.

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