Mike Cockrill at KENT Fine Art LLC

Mike Cockrill at KENT Fine Art LLC, 210 11th Avenue, 2nd Fl. , 9, 910, 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.