Hope everyone had a groovy Labor Day weekend. This week I want to focus on my 2023 painting Mask, which spent much of the summer hanging in the Triton Museum as a part of the Salon at Triton show.
Many of my paintings have a narrative quality to them. I have two degrees in film and when I’m not painting, I teach classes on cinema history. I suppose it’s not surprising then that my work can look like movie stills. Mask seems especially suggestive of an implied story.
A young woman in a crop top holds a mask to her face that looks a bit like a cow’s skull. Yet instead of the expected pair of round eyeholes, there is a triangle smack in the middle of the mask. She stands on a walking path in a sort of picturesque town that dot the California coast.
What is going on here? Is she a part of a cult? Is this a hallucination? I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Mask is now available at my online store, both the original and prints.