Twisted Canvas- The art of Ted A. Gillespie

08/26/2026

If one artist votes for Trump, your a fu***ng as***le!

The Department of State of the United States has removed a work by Kehinde Wiley that it commissioned for the US embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and that the current ambassador recently described as a symbol of “globalist and woke ideologies”. A senior official for the State Department says it is now exploring the legality of deaccessioning the painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2015), which was commissioned through the Art in Embassies programme and paid for with taxpayer funds.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/25/kehinde-wiley-painting-removed-us-embassy-dominican-republic-state-department

08/12/2026

Title: Trump Knows, 26x26, Mixed Media on Canvas

08/10/2026

Title: Medicine Cabinet
Medium: Mixed Media, Wood Construction, Assemblage

Built around a diptych painted during a period of upheaval, Medicine Cabinet transforms the familiar domestic object into a shrine of rupture and reckoning. Bottles of medication, children’s toys, a puppet, an animal syringe, and fragments of everyday life crowd the surface, relics of pain, humor, and survival. The words “F**K OFF” blaze across the panels like a refusal to be neatly diagnosed or contained.

Created while the artist was living in his studio and navigating divorce, the piece confronts the tension between internal struggle and external judgment.

08/06/2026

07/30/2026

Titled: White Ruler, 36x36
Context: Pages out of Life magazine of a lynching of a black man with a little white girl smiling, a black man beaning beaten with bricks, a group of our black enlisted men, K*K marching and a White Ruler.

07/30/2026

Some pieces, 2020-2025

07/07/2026

Executive Order
Diptych, 4' x 10'
Acrylic, spray paint, and glass shards on canvas

Executive Order is a visceral confrontation with the volatility of today’s political landscape. The diptych begins with the unmistakable structure of the Mexican flag, its colors paired with the words that define them, a grounding in identity, sovereignty, and cultural symbolism. Across this foundation, a sweeping layer of metallic gold overtakes the surface, echoing the visual language of Donald Trump’s signature gilded aesthetic. What begins as recognizable imagery dissolves into abstraction, suggesting the erasure, distortion, or overwriting of national narratives through political power.

The two panels are framed in bands of red, white, and blue, but the patriotic palette is fractured. Embedded shards of glass slice through the paint, forming a jagged border that reads as both barrier and warning, a literal and metaphorical Do Not Enter. The glass catches light like broken promises, like the sharp edges of policy, like the danger of crossing thresholds that were never meant to be breached.

Together, the diptych stands as a charged meditation on authority, nationalism, and the consequences of executive action. It is not a passive image; it is a rupture, a reminder that political decisions reverberate far beyond the documents that bear their names.
Copy AI assisted.

06/29/2026

No one has asked me, what is that quote on the flag in German. Did you Goggle it? You might be surprised.

10/25/2025

Tonight's Bouncer may ask for a valid I. D.
"Permission to Vomit"
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