"For a very different kind of character identification, try emerging painter Troy Brooks’s new suite of paintings, Colossus, on display at Pentimento Gallery. Your latent femme fatale will thank you.
While Brooks has explored dangerous ladies as subjects before – a typical Brooks she-devil subject has an elongated face and body, is dead white, dressed elaborately, surrounded by weird animal familiars and/or horrific accidents, and is perhaps transgendered – his painting style has changed subtly but markedly." read more...