RACHID BOUHAMIDI supporting EVERYTOWN
Blue Bride, 2019
Oil on canvas
56 x 63 cm (22 x 24.8 in.)
€2,400
“The presence of gun violence overshadows the ability to address the social problems of class, gender and racial inequities plaguing our society. The scale and frequency of murders committed with guns constitutes one of the greatest obstacles to redress these social issues and is a grave threat to the overall public health of our country as well as a blight on the lives of surviving victims. One of the organizations committed to act against this scourge of gun violence through various initiatives is Everytown and I support them fully.” - Rachid Bouhamidi
Photo credit: Rachid Bouhamidi
ARTIST
Rachid Bouhamidi was born in Palm Springs in 1981 and raised in Southern California to a French mother and a Moroccan father. He started drawing about the time he first learned to pick up a pencil and took to the idea of being a serious artist when he was 14 after seeing an exhibition of etchings by Francisco Goya in Pomona, California. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and his MFA from Boston University in 2010.
The formal and figurative concerns in Bouhamidi’s work draw inspiration from his mixed cultural identity, from observations of the natural world and from popular art forms such as comics and by the working-class culture of the Hispanic neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Rachid Bouhamidi lives and works in Los Angeles.
CHARITY
Everytown is the largest gun violence prevention organization in America.
Everytown is a movement of nearly 10 million mayors, teachers, survivors, gun owners, students, and everyday Americans on a mission to end gun violence and save lives.