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Jack Keough
American Oligarchy, Then & Now
Inspired by: Kenro Izu, Blue #1010B Unknown Artist, Vase
oil paint
12″ x 19 3/4″
2025
As soon as I saw the contorted nude Blue #1010B by Kenro Izu, it made me think of the slaves, naked in wells of the ships, treated worse than cargo. This was human grease enabling the building of an oligarchy class during the earliest days of our nation. It suppressed the workers economically, and every way, for the enrichment of a special level of society. Now in 2025 that suppression has come into the daylight again with the same tools of control, again over all aspects of our daily life and laws. Soon, “we won’t have a pot to piss in.”
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Jack Keough
Recycled Soup
Inspired by: John Willis, Recycled Realities 1 Evelyn Rydz, Gulf Pile
oil pastels and mixed media on Strathmore paper and recycled materials
14.25″ x 22″
2023
I had started this painting a year ago of our in the house recycling paper bag that featured the Campbell’s Soup can prominently. (I’m not a huge Warhol fan). The recycling theme expanded for the “Impact” show and I used mainly personal effects on the frame including my last FAM artwork tag, and pieces of my “Work Series” show stands used in Boston and the Washington DC Mall to create the frame.
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Jack Keough
Free Speech & Yard Sales
Oil on Canvas
15.25″ x 27.25″
2022
This poor telephone pole has been working overtime for a very long time apparently, providing information with function for it’s neighborhood.
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Jack Keough
Naked in the Bubbles
oil paint
14.75″ x 15.125″
2022
This painting was inspired by another “Bubbles” painting I had recently completed. I decided that having the human form would provide a feeling of identifiable three dimensional depth of the bubbles. ‘Skinny Dipping’ came to mind as a shared experience where many would have experienced the feelings of all the tiny bubbles rising and tickling across your entire body as they rise. It is a lifelong naughty experience we have found to be so exciting, forbidden and memorable.
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