Kali the Destroyer from the collection of TAG Gallery

Kali the Destroyer

Intaglio and Monotype

29.5 x 22 x 0.01 in (74.93 x 55.88 x 0.03 cm)

$1,500

Available

Kali is a Hindu goddess who is considered to be the master of death, time and change. She destroys the evil in order to protect the innocent. Despite Kali's origins in battle, she evolved into a symbol of Mother Nature in her creative, nurturing and devouring aspects. In this image of Kali, I replaced her usual weapons with various modern accoutrements. She holds in her hands weapons of war (AR-15, atom bomb, missile), the corona virus (zoonotic diseases), a cross (organized religion), money (greed), a cell phone (misinformation, social media), an oil rig (the plundering of the earth’s resources), and finally a chicken (the animal-industrial complex). Climate change, war, pollution, mass murder, and the destruction of the natural environment are the weapons she uses to destroy humans. She is the Mother but also the Destroyer of human exceptionalism.

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About the artist

Karen Fiorito

United States

b. 1971

Karen Fiorito is an award winning activist, artist and curator residing in Southern California. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in major publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, Art Forum and ArtNews and featured in such books as American Women Artists in Wartime, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today and The Design of Dissent. Fiorito has received grants from Change, Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Pollination Project, A Well Fed World and LUSH Cosmetics for her public art projects, including the billboard campaign ‘Got Drought?’ which toured from 2015 - 2021. She has curated of many art exhibitions, including Evolution/Revolution: The Interconnectedness of All Beings (2011), Indivisible: United We Stand, Divided We Fall (2020) and The Absent Referent (2022). Her prints are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the U.S. Forest Service, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Self Help Graphics. She holds a M.F.A. from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is the President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS). She is also a member of the California Society of Printmakers (CSP), the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and a Board member at The Artists Gallery (TAG).

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