Lemme introduce you to (or reintroduce you to) a painter by the name of Candice Tripp. She’s about to have a show at Joshua Liner Gallery called “Tiny Drama” all about the ironically small problems of tiny people – that is – children. Each of these precision executed sharp colored paintings is oil paints on white canvas, painted in a way that centers on the problem, describing the toughness of childhood, helping the audience sort out their own life and problems in the process.

Here’s a couple examples of pieces in the show:

(Above)
Sometimes the Skull Monkeys Break Out
Oil and ink on canvas
2009
30 x 40 in.

(Below)
Tiny Drama
Oil and ink on canvas
2009
30 x 30 in.

Take note of the immense amount of white space. And take, please, note of the monkeys. That painting is just fantabulous. I always say there’s not enough depictions of monkeys in today’s artworks. It’s like people have forgotten the trueness of our hairy-tailed companions. Candice Tripp knows, though. She knows how in childhood, the burden of a monkeyless world falls heaviest.

Candice Tripp
Tiny Drama
November 21 to December 19, 2009
Reception Saturday November 21st, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours
Tuesday — Saturday
11 — 6PM

Address
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 244-7415
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info@joshualinergallery.com

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