The Bath handles these gilded

these gilded

Sean Rush presents Monk’s Prayer as a conte-pencil portrait capturing a moment of childlike devotion and spiritual stillness

and meditative resonance —and positions the series within a lineage of artists seeking presence through absence

Rush isolates fragments—light

The Bath handles these gildedThe Bath, 2020 Oil on Canvas 60 96 in 152. 4 243. 8 cm Spanning two juxtaposed panels, The Bath portrays a man reclined in water, cigarette in hand, his direct gaze confronting the viewer. Constructed with confident, sweeping brushstrokes and an expressive palette of muted blues, grays, and warm ochres, the painting merges figuration with abstraction. The water and flesh dissolve into painterly blocksgestural fragments that both reveal and obscure the