Celeste Rapone, Sideline (after Ben Shahn), 2025. Oil on Canvas; 72 × 90 in (182.9 × 228.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
A spokesperson says---
"...Rapone paints figures to become both actors and scenery. Her paintings, known for purposefully flat and compressed compositions, embody and embrace the mundanity of daily life, particularly as experienced by women either in the home, in social settings, or out in the world."
"The artwork revisits a 1940 painting titled Men on a Bench by Lithuanian-American social realist painter Ben Shahn, an artist who focused on labor and immigrant experiences during the Great Depression..."
