Don Gray paintings

Unusually creative, original self-portraits, acrylic paintings. "Artists paint self-portraits while looking in a mirror. This painting is nearly all reflection, except for a bit of mirror frame on the left, the cover of the book and my hand in the foreground holding a dollar bill. A major reason for painting this picture, was the further exploration of a detailed realism. The painting's ultimate meaning may be the materialism of society and the commercialism of the art world, which often seems to care more about money than art. Thus the dollar bill in my hand, saying that art must somehow be accomplished despite the forces aligned against it."