The viewing experience Marc Handelman creates is not one of comfort —
his unsettling work references a history of painting that ranges from the Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism to Thomas Kinkade, and depicts troubling landscapes, billboards and nationalistic iconography.
Without giving too much away, I found this
unsettling because it's acceptable to be inspired by or make
references to other
works, but to borrow this heavily from something is a bit too brazen.