Stubbly Numbness

Morteza Khakshoor works with a range of subjects, but it’s his attention to the male in all his foibles, struggles, and pathos–that remains a salient feature of his output. As frequent protagonists in his paintings, like all of his subjects, they result from circuitous paths through found images and memories, seen and remembered, or invented from whole cloth. His consumption of these images feed into his daily drawing practice, which in turn, metabolizes disparate information into schema for paintings at once playfully tragic and colorfully dark.