{"id":106,"date":"2008-08-24T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-08-12T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T20:33:53","slug":"the-greatest-show-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Show on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Get Your Popcorn! Peanuts! Cruelty!" by Amy Guidry; Copyright Amy Guidry 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well here’s a sneak peek for all my blog fans (hopefully there are a lot of those…).\u00a0 I was invited to participate in a show for A Bitchin’ Space in Sacramento, California.\u00a0 The theme was right up my alley.\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0[Gale Hart]\u00a0figured this out by viewing some of my social commentary pieces, but somehow they knew to ask me if I’d like to do a piece for “The Circus Show and Other Atrocities.”\u00a0 I jumped at the chance since, as a vegan and\u00a0quasi animal rescue organization (I’ve taken in a lot of homeless animals over the years…), I detest the circus and its treatment of animals.\u00a0 Soooo, this leads to my latest creation- “Get Your Popcorn!\u00a0 Peanuts!\u00a0 Cruelty!”<\/p>\n

I toiled over my sketchbook forever coming up with the perfect idea for this show.\u00a0 I wanted to\u00a0convey the circus’s cruelty without being gratuitous, either.\u00a0 I kept thinking of the old animal cracker box I used to get as a kid, the one by Nabisco that came with a string on top of the box to reuse (?) as a Christmas ornament (?).\u00a0 Then finally I decided to go with that theme, but Amy-ize it with my own sarcastic flavor.\u00a0 Hence the animals with giant bites taken out of them, and the re-wording of the brand name and description.<\/p>\n

So that’s it!\u00a0 Your official sneak peek at my work.\u00a0 It’s not even on my website yet (but it will be soon), so in the meantime, check out my other work- www.AmyGuidry.com<\/a>.\u00a0 My other social commentary pieces can also be seen in my Painting section of the website.<\/p>\n

As for the greatest show on earth, well, obviously I’m not referring to the circus.\u00a0 The show is “The Circus Show and Other Atrocities” and will open on September 13th at A Bitchin’ Space.\u00a0 If you can’t make it then, my work and the other 99 artists’ works will still be on display until October 11th.\u00a0 And yes, this show is the best on earth because it includes artists from the US, UK, and Canada.\u00a0 You can find the gallery at 2114 19th Street in downtown Sacramento.\u00a0 You can check out their website at www.abitchinspace.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well here’s a sneak peek for all my blog fans (hopefully there are a lot of those…).\u00a0 I was invited to participate in a show for A Bitchin’ Space in Sacramento, California.\u00a0 The theme was right up my alley.\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0[Gale Hart]\u00a0figured this out by viewing some of my social commentary pieces, but somehow they knew … Continue reading The Greatest Show on Earth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,148,146,161,145,160,158,154,162,156,157,159,147,5,149,152,144,53,155,153,13,129,151,150],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-exhibitions","tag-a-bitchin-space","tag-amy-guiidry","tag-animal-abuse","tag-animal-acts","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-performace","tag-barnum-and-bailey","tag-barnums-animal-crackers","tag-gale-hart","tag-get-your-popcorn-peanuts-cruelty","tag-greatest-show-on-earth","tag-ringling-brothers","tag-the-circus-show-and-other-atrocities","tag-art","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-circus","tag-gallery","tag-nabisco","tag-opening","tag-painting","tag-sacramento","tag-uk","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}