You're Killing Me: Deborah Kass

About "You're Killing Me"

"Vote. Your life depends on it." That's the message Deborah Kass wanted to convey with her piece "You're Killing Me," featuring the images of five of the Far Right Supreme Court justices: Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch.

But two of the nation’s largest billboard companies refused to display this hard-hitting piece as well as two others created by Cleon Peterson for a digital billboard campaign in partnership with People For the American Way that intended to help deliver a GOTV message to inspire Georgia voters to the polls through Nov. 8.

Art is powerful - don't let them censor us

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This is the art they don't want you to see. Artist Deborah Kass has a message for Georgians: Vote. All of our lives depend on it.

But when she tried to share her message with Georgians, the billboard companies censored her. Help us spread the message - and vote by November 8.

#GeorgiaArtProject #ArtistsFortheAmericanWay #peoplefor

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About Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass is an artist whose work examines the intersection of art history, popular culture and the self. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Orleans Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Fogg/ Harvard Museum, as well as other museums and private collections. 

Kass’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The Andy Warhol Museum presented "Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After, Mid- Career Retrospective” in 2012, with a catalogue published by Rizzoli. Her monumental sculpture OY/YO became an instant icon and is now permanently installed in front of the Brooklyn Museum and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. 

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