Masked, 2020 — painting by Benjamin Smit

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Masked, 2020

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A red face wearing a teal surgical mask stares out of a splattered, near-black field. The contrast between the flat vermilion head, the bright mask and the dripping, spray-flecked surround is deliberately jarring. It reads as a wry and uneasy record of the masked pandemic moment.