Artivisms Artists
Hugh Foster
Hugh Foster’s photography captures the quiet yet unshakable presence of dissent. Rooted in documentary tradition yet elevated through poetic framing, his images focus on the everyday lives of those who embody resilience in times of crisis. Foster’s lens reveals stories often erased or ignored, drawing attention to the lived consequences of policy, ideology, and cultural division. His photographs extend beyond documentation, they are testimonies of survival and voices of the silenced. In this exhibition, Foster emphasizes the power of witnessing, asserting photography as a form of resistance against forgetting and a call to see more deeply.
David Milton
David Milton’s recent work Still Life with Banned Books situates the artist at the intersection of aesthetic beauty and political urgency. Known for his masterful handling of light and space, Milton turns his attention to one of the most pressing cultural debates of our time: the banning of books in schools and libraries across the United States. His composition elevates objects often dismissed or hidden into emblems of resistance and resilience. By staging literature as both fragile and unyielding, Milton reminds us that censorship is not merely a political act but an assault on memory, knowledge, and imagination itself.
Jorg Dubin
Jorg Dubin has long been recognized for his uncompromising vision and willingness to confront power. His practice addresses systemic injustice, war, and the shifting tides of American identity. Through visceral figurative paintings and politically charged imagery, Dubin forces his audience to confront the uncomfortable truths behind political rhetoric. His work refuses the role of passive commentary, instead demanding accountability and awakening. In Resistance Month, Dubin channels both anger and hope, creating a body of work that speaks to protest as a civic responsibility, echoing Orwell’s warning that “in a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Walter Reiss
Walter Reiss, a ceramicist with over fifty years of experience and a longtime Sawdust Art Festival exhibitor, merges dark whimsy with sharp social and political critique. His vessels and sculptures, animated by irony and satire, transform fragile clay into potent commentaries on power, ideology, and cultural complacency. Blurring grotesque and playful, his work entices with humor yet unsettles with deeper truths—beauty as trap, whimsy as mask, ceramics as dissent. Mastering glaze, texture, and form, Reiss's art embodies complex meanings, addressing censorship, free speech, environmental collapse, and politics. Featured in November’s Resistance Month at Point of View Gallery, his work stands as both mirror and warning, underscoring the relentless need to defend freedom of expression.