Renée Cox NY071325 I really had fun making

I really had fun making something ordinary… extraordinary

the Tom of Finland Foundation and Dropshop collaborated with Los Angeles-based master printshop Cirrus Editions to enlarge and transfer Hunting to new lithographic plates

The image brings to light that although people of color did not participate in the signing of the Constitution

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Renée Cox NY071325 I really had fun makingIn this witty and dramatic large scale work, the artist reinterprets Howard Chandler Christys iconic painting, Scene at The Signing of the Constitution of the United States, which is housed in the United State Capitol Building. In her contemporary (and glamorous) twist, Coxs photograph reimagines modern day women and men of color in the place of the Founding Fathers. Her subjects are all decked out some in current fashions, others in 1700s period