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Artist: Adam Mysock
A Fool
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862 I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Earliest Portrait of Everything
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: the European Space Agency's Planck Observatory's imaging of Cosmic Microwave Background Framed: 4h x 7.75w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 198...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Death of Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (1871) and Eaton's Neck, Long Island by John Frederick Kensett (1872) Painted as a response to the ongoing conversations about race and policing in the United States in 2020, Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief focuses on the problem of the “But what about…” conversations that too often accompany discussions about systemic racism and discrimination. From the nonsensical All Lives Matter crowd to the virtue-signaling of more well-meaning, empathetic groups, people outside of BIPOC communities too frequently seem ready to misdirect valuable attention away from meaningful change toward their own unthreatened subcultures. Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief presents a mourning white male pulled from The Death of Seneca hovering above the shore of Eaton’s Neck, far from an “X” drawn in the sand. The setting is simple and uncomplicated beyond the target on its shore. However, the forlorn figure draws the spotlight away from the marked terrain toward his dramatic presentation of suffering. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007. After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center. Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

A Surmountable Problem Writ Large
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Young Beggar by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (c. 1645-50) and Approaching Thunder Storm by Martin Johnson Heade (1859) The main character of this painting finds himself mired in a pond as a sizeable storm approaches, and yet – instead of standing up and removing himself from the trouble – he chooses to focus on the discomfort of his wet clothing. This child, attending to a minor nuisance rather than enacting a permanent solution, stands in as an icon of our current sociopolitical leadership – leadership which has defined our modern reality by its preference for constantly kicking the can on major issues (climate change, income inequality, various forms of discrimination, and so much more) as the rest of us are left to watch from the shore. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007. After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center. Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Going
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: a NASA image of the Whirlpool Galaxy Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

A Willing Ignorance
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, 1919 When considering the factors that are required (or at least helpful) for a lie to succeed, I constantly look to the audience. I constantly tr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Lack of Consequence
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

OF-Hand3
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head17
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head5
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Foot2
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Red Sky in the Morning (Day Three)
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementa...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Coming
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: a NASA image of the Andromeda Galaxy Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Distorted Perspectives
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jan Veth’s “Portrait of Cornelia, Clara, and Johanna Veth” from 1885. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

An Allowance to Try Again
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939 Whenever I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, I’ve always been struck by the same thing – that the actor who play...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

O'er the Ramparts We Watched
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10.50h x 7.50w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

A Reliable Pardon
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

OF-Head21
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

An Exciting Unknown
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987) Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Weak Compromise
Located in New Orleans, LA
A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Cautionary Tale
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940 Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Counter Example
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Bombs Bursting in Air
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 17.50w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

OF-Head27
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Torso1
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head28
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head22
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head26
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head24
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head23
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head25
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head19
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head20
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head10
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head4
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head16
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Hand4
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head18
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head15
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head9
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

OF-Head8
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Foot3
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Foot1
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

An Audience Unaware
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Johannes Vermeer’s A Girl Asleep, 1656-57 Learning to lie is a bit like learning how to play a game. There are strategies. There’s an opponent. It can be fun because it’s a cha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Wood Panel, Varnish, Acrylic

A Horrifying Self-Actualization
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Platform
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

An Automated Message
Located in New Orleans, LA
From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky. Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Repetition
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-and-green parrot. For a lie to gain real power, it must continue its existence separate from its creator. If it can be repeated by others, retold in a variety of contexts, it ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Tutor
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Kellyanne Conway While the statement for this show indicates that there are no formal teachers of proper lying technique, it doesn’t deny that there are individuals ou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Tentative Probe
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Wood Panel, Varnish, Acrylic

A Bit Too Far
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A False Prophet
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Pretty Face and a Nice Body
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Lance Armstrong We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Sense of Guilt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Role Model
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Charles Ponzi When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

An Overreach
Located in New Orleans, LA
From an illustration by Arthur Rackham for Alice in Wonderland – “They all crowded round it panting and asking, ‘But who has won?’” 1907 There’s a fear of inferiority that lies behi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A Seduction
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900 We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A First Apology
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Mark McGwire If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

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