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Recession gives artist a break

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1. Peter Zonis now exhibits his works in the lobby of an office building in New York’s mid-town Manhattan.
2. "I just wanted to turn a negative into a positive."
3. "and by doing these paintings that it would somehow give people more hope and a solution to what was happening.
4. That unsinkable optimism that earned him a home for his works is reflected in a series of paintings called ‘Metropolis Now’.
5. Only this time he placed the bull in front of the shrine to capitalism.
6. "I thought maybe from a good luck point of view I could re-position the bull – bring it right in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
7. So, it’s no surprise that this show includes a painting featuring America’s first family in front of the White House.
8. After all, a little known senator with a thin resume took a huge risk by running for the highest office and imbued his victorious campaign with a promise of hope.