​Justin Durso

Painted faces is a series I continually work on that has to do with the tempestuous behavior. The ideas that I'm depicting revolve around the ego and themes involving lustful obsession, juicy gossip, the degradation of humanity, monstrous behavior, pain, suffering, neglect, and denial using dramatic polarizing controversial story lines embodied by naive doll like figures. True horror is unaware. For me these works participate in the idea that the body is destitute with out a soul. That showing signs of life, may be perceived as "giving life" but does not throughly mean having life makes you alive! In these works you will see these figures going through the motions of life as though they are entirely over come and dedicated in acting out "the moment" simply because it's their only performance. All works are created with either marker, watercolor, acrylic paint and pencil.