Undead Bill of Rights
Matt Greene
American, born 1972
2003
An ink-on-paper drawing that composes a tangled, rotting crowd of humanlike figures and handheld protest signs to imagine a satirical “Bill of Rights” for the undead, mixing horror imagery with political commentary.
What hits you first is the dense, frenetic web of thin, overlapping ink lines that resolve into smeared faces and drips, anchored by a cluster of placards with blunt slogans and set against a wide, empty white expanse with a small silhouetted figure at the horizon.
By grafting zombie iconography onto protest aesthetics, the work uses meticulous drawing to stage a darkly humorous critique of contemporary debates about rights, identity, and mass politics, opening a space where pop-culture monsters illuminate civic anxieties.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
14 x 17" (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1778.2005
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