New American Paintings

Dominic Molon

How does one paint in a pandemic? Perhaps the better question is, how doesn’t one paint in a pandemic?

Quarantines and obligatory lockdowns in our homes would provide an ideal excuse for even the most aesthetically disinclined to get some pigment, a brush, and canvas and have a go. The past two years have been characterized by bunkering into our domestic space—with a sudden increase of scrutiny and reassessment of those confines ensuing—and followed by tentative, then insistent—and not always advisable—reentries into the outside world, masked, distanced, and hopefully vaccinated,

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