Danger Dogs from Nepal – Folk Art from the Himalayas For Immediate Release: January 8, 2009 Danger Dogs from Nepal Michelle Page of Santa Monica is pleased to announce the Obama Series – 23 folk art portraits of Barack Obama painted on metal by 10 Nepali artists in the style of hand-painted signboards. The captions include “Enlightened President”, “Green President” and “Gobama”. Given a choice of photos from which to paint -- from Shephard Fairey’s iconic images to Obama’s official Senate photo -- the artists chose which images they would paint, and were given free rein to interpret their signboards with their own palette. The Nepali artists have a long tradition of portrait painting of political figures. Literally every shop in Nepal had a hand-painted portrait of the Nepali King up until the recent deposition of King Gyendra in April, 2008. The Obama series is an expansion of Page’s Danger Dogs project helping Nepali signboard artists survive the onslaught of digital technology. Until very recently, all signs in Nepal were hand-painted Contact Michelle at: [email protected] 310-828-7745