Other
paintings point to the sociocultural climate she found in her adoptive country, with dregs
of car
crashes, homeless figures, sneering cowboys, and
scenes of mass mayhem such as the devastating Oklahoma City bombing.
We pass from room to room: first, Me, Jesus and the Children, a monumental trompe l'oeil spray
painting of Dan's chest, a Jesus piece, and cartoon cherub psychopomps who
crash the viewer into its solid plastic face; then, Whatever, a 5» x 6»
scene extracted from Pinocchio, where an extinguished candle lights a room; two walls
of Confetti, the Moments Like These Never Last series, as varied in aura as they are in approach and technique; four walls
of indomitable Trash
paintings; four more
of his Miracle works, oil medium and raw pigment powder conjurations so boundless they literally escape their backings.