Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies

Twenty artists made thirty-eight separate artworks, including paintings, collages, photographs, sculptures, videos, virtual reality, and mixed media. Thirty-seven photographs of the art are below.

The thirty-eighth artwork was a Lincoln video game!

Nathan Peck

The Turbulent 60s

Photoshop and Oil Collage with laser cut birch frames

Corey Smith

Lincoln in New Salem and Ann Rutledge and the Survey

Virtual Reality Performance

Billie Jean Theide

Souvenir Chia Lincoln & Commemorative 4¢

Woven Tapestry, Perler® beads, cotton

William Blake

The Lincolns: Hugh Goffinet reenacting a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at Fort Stevens

Oil on Linen

Judith Joseph

Pillar of Light

Leather, wood, steel, paper maché, minie balls

Industry of the Ordinary

Walking Shadow

Video and Phototex

alexander Martin

Celebration/unfinished business (I(we) am(are) a legacy)

Textiles, Mixed media, performance, and video

David Hinds

Lincoln’s Journey

Acrylic on panel mounted in a freestanding framework

Don Pollack

chop wood carry water, tale of two cities, A year of living dangerously, war of the world, metamorphosis, & Great expectations

Oil on Canvas mounted on wood panel

Julie Cowan

A Proposition of Equality

Lithography, colored pencil, watercolor, graphite, Swedish tracing paper

Keenan Dailey

NCN & LNCL LOG

Game and video

Judith Mayer

How will they remember me?

ink, thread, pillow, and pillowcase

Jordan Fein

The Melancholy that followed

Acrylic, ink, alcohol based ink, graphite, and colored pencil on canvas

Lori Fuller

FADED Beauty

colored pencil

Danny Houk

i will become all one thing or all the other

wood, stain, paint, laser jet print, and acrylic gel

Lindsay Johnson

Descendants

stoneware, milk paint

Larsen Husby

Legacy/seepage

Chicago common brick

Krista Shelton

The Past, Lincoln battling for Freedom and Justice, & Present/Future

photographic, mixed media, and Digital collage

Mark Nelson

frances loves abe versus eighteen sixty two

Mixed media