Art doesn't think. It shows.

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Paintings

The gay rights movement of the mid-70s caused Los Angeles artist Bill Rangel to commit to showing his life uncensored in his paintings. The principles of that endless struggle are evident throughout his lifelong body of artwork. Forty-five years later, anti-gay bills are still getting passed into law. 

Life Paintings

Vitamin D, 2021

Painting of briefs-clad male couple exercising and getting some rays in bedroom during Delta surge

Spirit of the Fruit, 2020

Still life painting of ripened pineapple on table near kitchen curtains

Death Paintings

The Blue and the Orange Time, 2018

Painting of hallucinating naked male AIDS victim clinging to handrail in hospice bathroom

Narcissus Discovers Truth, 2018

Painting of nude male figure by pond submerging his head underwater while grasping a jungle vine

Sex Paintings

Afternoon Prayer, 2021

Painting of lower halves of nude male couple holding hands on a bed near an open window


Relentless Root, 2019

Painting of sleepwalking nude male spirit figure arousing an ancient tree-phallus

Politics Paintings

The Musk of Social Murder, 2021

Painting of elite nude male figure dangling a carrot and burning a soiled world map with his feet

Flight of the Acquittal, 2021

Painting of mash-up of top hat, horned fur hat, nailed feet, and pontificating bird-human 



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