Masked Figure in Baseball Cap Painting

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been presented with a host of new shapes and phrases. PSA signs, hand sanitizer stations, 6ft markers at the checkout line, social distancing—these shapes and phrases are heavy and full. The masked face is a newly common image for many of us, and I’ve watched the sudden rise of its ubiquity from my living room window and on walks to the grocery store. Much of my work addresses repeating images that reappear over and over, lingering and living on in different iterations. In this series, I’ve turned to the masked faces, which have become such images that repeat and become part of an ongoing visual experience. This painting was created using oil and acrylic paint on a wood panel.