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End Time
 

The term ‘History Painting’ refers to any picture with a high-minded or heroic narrative, as illustrated by the exemplary deeds of its figures. The End Time series belong to this tradition. Made of dressmaker pins that puncture large sheets of black velvet, there is something excessive about these pictures: the grand scale, the innumerable pins, the evident slowness of production. Also something wrong: the characters are never what they seem, their heroism questionable.

 

These pictures are history paintings for the early twenty-first century, their narratives presaging the world-view of United States President Donald J. Trump.