Gallery 110, Seattle
September 6-29, 2018
Statement on controversy
Questions and answers
Installation views
View Artist Statement below
A new series of provocative paintings by artist David Haughton features portraits of neo-Nazis, livid gun advocates, and disenfranchised, resentful and angry protesters. Rich with texture, they capture the rage and violence of angry white men as they express their frustration, desperation and fear towards people who are not like them. The images are taken from news photos in France, Hungary, Bosnia, Poland, England, Scotland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and the USA.
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Three Angry Men I (Germany)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Three Angry Men II (USA)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Two Angry Men (England & USA)
Acrylic on Hardboard, 2018
34 x 48 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Four Angry Men (USA)
Acrylic on Hardboard, 2018
34 x 48 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Two Angry Men I (France)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Two Angry Men II (USA)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Two Angry Men III (USA)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Three Angry Men III (England)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
One Angry Man III (Poland)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Eight Angry Men (Germany & England)
Acrylic on Hardboard, 2018
34 x 48 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
One Angry Man I (USA)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
One Angry Man III (USA)
Acrylic on Clayboard, 2018
16 x 20 inchesAll prices are for unframed works. Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law. -
Mug shot XXIV – Fellow Christian
Acrylic on Multimedia Artboard, 2017
28 x 36 inches. Price available upon request.Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law.
Dylan Roof
Earlier on Tuesday, Roof had told the court he was not sure “what good it would do” to ask jurors for life in prison instead of execution, showing no remorse for the massacre. When the verdict was read, Roof stood stoic and showed no emotion. He will be formally sentenced Wednesday.
In his final argument to jurors, Roof, a 22-year-old white man, said he felt he had to carry out the slayings on 17 June 2015. “I still feel like I had to do it,” Roof said. Holding on to his racist beliefs, he said: “Anyone who hates anything in their mind has a good reason for it.”
Prosecutors said Roof deserved execution because he went to the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, with a gun and a “hateful heart”. Assistant US attorney Jay Richardson said the 12 people Roof targeted were God-fearing church members who opened the door for a white stranger with a smile. Three people survived.
“They welcomed a 13th person that night … with a kind word, a Bible, a handout and a chair,” Richardson said during his closing argument. “He had come with a hateful heart and a Glock .45.”
Richardson reminded jurors about each one of the victims and the bloody crime scene that Roof left behind in the church’s lower level. Roof sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes, and during the final prayer – when everyone’s eyes were closed – he started firing. He stood over some of the fallen victims, shooting them again as they lay on the floor, the prosecutor said. Roof did not explain his actions to jurors, but in his FBI confession he said he hoped to bring back segregation or start a race war. - The Guardian -
Mug Shot XXVI Zealot
Acrylic on Multimedia Artboard, 2017
34 x 40 inches. Price available upon request.Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law.
A one-and-a-half year-old Palestinian infant was burned to death and three of his family members were seriously wounded early Friday morning after a house was set on fire in the West Bank village of Douma, near Nablus.
According to witnesses, at roughly 4 A.M. Friday morning, two masked men arrived at two homes in the village of Douma, not far from the settlement of Migdalim. They sprayed painted graffiti reading "revenge" and "long live the Messiah" in Hebrew, breaking the windows of the homes and throwing two firebombs inside.
One of the two homes was empty at the time, but there was a family in the second: 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh, his father Sa'ad, mother Reham, and 4-year-old Ahmed. The four were evacuated to a hospital in Nablus in the West Bank and then to the burns unit at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. The Israel Defense Forces subsequently confirmed that 18-month-old Ali died in the attack, and that Jewish extremists are suspected to be behind the attack.
"This attack against Palestinian civilians is a barbaric act of terrorism," IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner tweeted soon after the attack. Forces combed the area in an attempt to find the perpetrators.
According to eyewitnesses, the father was able to rescue his wife and 4-year-old son, but could not locate the baby, Ali, in the darkness. According to the Shin Bet security agency, 23-year-old Meir Ettinger was arrested late Monday for "involvement in an extremist Jewish organization."
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Mug Shot XXV Crusader
Acrylic on Multimedia Artboard, 2017
34 x 40 inches. Price available upon request.Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law.
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. is a former leader of the defunct North Carolina-based White Patriot Party (formerly known as the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan). Convicted of murder as well as criminal charges related to weapons, and the violation of an injunction against paramilitary activity, he has been a perennial candidate for public office. He is an advocate of white nationalism, white separatism, neo-paganism and a proponent of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
On April 13, 2014, Miller was arrested following the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting in Overland Park, Kansas. A 14-year-old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood, and his 69-year-old grandfather, physician Dr. William Lewis Corporon, were killed at the Jewish Community Center. Both were Christians and attendants at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood. A 53-year-old woman, Terri LaManno, who was an occupational therapist in Kansas City, was killed at the parking lot of Village Shalom, where her mother resided. LaManno was also a Christian who attended St. Peter's Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Initial reports indicated a fourth person who was shot and wounded, but it was later confirmed that all of the people who suffered gunshot wounds were killed. Including the people shot at but escaping uninjured, only one person targeted by gunfire was Jewish.
On August 31, 2015, Miller was found guilty in the Overland Park shooting of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault and weapons charges.
- Wikipedia -
Mug shot XXVII – Viking
Acrylic on Multimedia Artboard, 2017
34 x 40 inches. Price available upon request.Please note the images are protected by copyright under Canadian and United States Law.
Anders Behring Breivik
SKIEN, NORWAY—Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute as he walked into a courtroom at a high-security prison where judges on Tuesday began reviewing a ruling that his solitary confinement is inhumane.
The 37-year-old right-wing extremist, who killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in 2011, sued the government last year. He argued that his solitary confinement, frequent strip searches and the fact that he was often handcuffed during the early part of his incarceration violated his human rights. But lawyers representing the government said that he enjoys better prison conditions than some inmates in Norway. They also warned that he remains a threat and should continue to be held in solitary confinement.
Breivik was convicted of mass murder and terrorism in 2012 and given a 21-year prison sentence that can be extended for as long as he’s deemed dangerous to society. Legal experts say he will likely be locked up for life.
He is being held in isolation in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise. He has also complained about the quality of the prison food, having to eat with plastic utensils and not being able to communicate with sympathizers. The government has rejected his complaints, saying he is treated humanely despite the severity of his crimes and that he must be separated from other inmates for safety reasons.
Breivik had carefully planned the attacks on July 22, 2011. He set off a car bomb outside the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people and wounding dozens. Dressed in a police uniform, Breivik then drove to the island of Utoya, about 40 kilometres away, where he opened fire on the annual summer camp of the left-wing Labour party’s youth wing. Sixty-nine people there were killed, most of them teenagers, before he surrendered to police.
At the time of the attacks, Breivik claimed to be the commander of a secret Christian military order plotting an anti-Muslim revolution in Europe, but now describes himself as a traditional neo-Nazi who prays to the Viking god Odin. He also made a Nazi salute to journalists at the start of his human rights case last year.
- The Star.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Everywhere I look in the news of the world, I see angry white men. Their towns have been hollowed out by the closing of factories or mines. The work done by their parents for a decent wage is now done abroad, and by machines and robots. Their insecurities are shaped into weapons by demagogues who blame the people who aren’t like them: immigrants, elites, liberals, democrats. Feelings of frustration and inadequacy are soothed by myths of an older, better time – a time when people loyal to their tribe or “nation” were honored, respected and rewarded.
“Men and women lacking in, or deprived of, agency look to nationalism to assure them that, in their own way, they are as good as everyone else – better, even. It is just that the world does not give them the respect they deserve… [they] feel that the disruptions to the economy caused by globalization and technological change have increasingly rigged it against them. Their hard work – real or imagined – goes unrewarded while self-serving elites and the minorities who enjoy their favor reap privileged access to wealth and power. Bureaucrats obsessed with political correctness give immigrants jobs, houses and places in the local schools, while the nationalist’s loyalty to the nation, which is held to stretch back generations, is rewarded only by sneering and disdain.”
The Economist – December 23, 2017
I am profoundly grieved and frightened by the rage and fear in their expressions, and the incoherent violence that some are driven to. “I understand a fury in your words. But not the words”. Men furious at Muslims kill Sikhs. Men attempting to murder Jews instead shoot Lutherans. Men whose fathers risked their lives fighting fascism raise their arms in Nazi salutes, join the KKK, and set elderly immigrants on fire.
I morn this regression to tribalism, to a loyalty limited to those of similar race, culture and political viewpoint, to a world-view that sees a threat in people of different religions and cultural backgrounds. But, as I paint these angry white men from France, Hungary, Bosnia, Poland, England, Scotland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and of course, the United States of America, I can dimly see their humanity. The market reforms of the 1980s, globalization of trade, and particularly the technological advances of the last 40 years have enriched us all, but disproportionately so the elite; the sense that everyone is in the same boat has been destroyed.
I also understand that, given that in the right combination of frustration, desperation and fear, I might look like them. I, too, have ‘bred in my bones’ the capacity for fear, contempt, anger and violence towards strangers who look different, talk a strange language and now compete for the same resources.