Elizabeth Olbert
Johnny Angel, 1999, pigments in acrylic urethane and mixed media on canvas, 74" x 74", Coutesy: Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
"All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again."—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
All my monsters are really me, really us. Maybe it's easier for some people to look at painful things, and beautiful things too, through some kind of filter. It allows us to look at our own species—gorgeous and creepy and tragic as we are—without actually running out of the room.
