Mike Cockrill at KENT Fine Art LLC

Mike Cockrill at KENT Fine Art LLC, 210 11th Avenue, 2nd Fl., 9/9-10/22/2011, Riske’ paintings reminiscent of Balthus, Rockwell, and advertising from the 1940’s, women in bondage, exhibitionistic prepubescent girls, over exaggerated themes of Americana with a mixture of wholesomeness and kinkiness. The surfaces are as if casein, but are oil and Cockrill’s grasp of painting is remarkably stylized, something very hard to do. He uses his daughter as his model and works from photographs.