Prayers & Joking

I am in love with the paintings currently on display at Flashpoint Gallery; they're part of an exhibit called Prayers and Joking, showcasing new work by Baltimore artist Cara Ober. The graphic aesthetic just really appeals to me.

So that's my review. Here's how Flashpoint describes the exhibit:

Prayers & Joking is an installation of Baltimore-based artist Cara Ober’s mixed media drawings and paintings. Curated by Flashpoint Gallery Manager Rebecca Lowery, the exhibition underscores Ober’s layered approach to image-making, which is at once meditative and absurdist. Taking motifs from her upbringing such as wallpaper, textiles, tattoos, reference books and graffiti, Ober combines abstract and representational forms to weave together stories that explore conflict and relationships on a two-dimensional surface.

Um, yeah, it's a two-dimensional surface...it's a painting.

[Awkward silence.]

[Sound of crickets.]

Well, anyway, the paintings are great. Check 'em out.