A Cute Girl
1999. Acrylic on Canvas. 72" x 96"

In the above painting, "A Cute Girl", a surrealistic rooftop bachannal runs amuck in a cheesy-yellow urban dreamscape. Famous architectural landmarks of Chicago, including the Sears and John Hancock Towers, are cast into yellow plastic and sway into one-another. One of them, a cheesy rendition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, soars up in the air, as if in rebellion to the situation, perhaps too dignified or self-conscious to take part in such a row. The city is unpeopled but for the nearest rooftop, on which a crush of drunk and identical, beautiful women in red cocktail attire indulge in the perils and a pleasures of drink. A tumble of glasses and bottles collects at the lowest corner of the building, a tally of their inebriation. One raises her glass in an imbalanced toast and is yanked back to safety just in time. Small pranks are pulled against those who pass out. One woman sinks into the building's edge, in blissful rapport with the bloodshot-eyed kite she flies... others hold precarious perches, intent on drinking more...the women to the building's rear, cloaked in shadow appear to be helping on of their own who is on the verge of nausea. To get a clearer picture of the image on which it is based, click here.