• Nathan Ritterpusch — Because We Care
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Look Out
• Nathan Ritterpusch — The Visit
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Pick Up
• Nathan Ritterpusch — Love Sick

Creepy; beautiful women as victims and objects of desire, who is the creep?

The wall text calls the paintings “cinematic” and it’s right. Frozen, tense moments, before or after action; part of some narrative for which our only context is movie tropes.

Cindy Sherman. Clowns.

And painted exquisitely. Smooth, hi-gloss, photo-real, and somehow also piled high with juicy paint. There is a directionality to the painterly-ness: horizontal, like CRT scanlines, like glitches, or memory, or ripples moving across the face of water.