Phantasm


Lambda digital C print

Greg Neville's faces can be categorized by simple emotions: angry, happy, surprised, frightened; like characters from children's books, with emotions more powerful for their simplicity. Looming out of a psychically impenetrable murk, radically simplified like tribal masks whose animistic and magical qualities they suggest, his images emerge out of a longheld interest in collective and institutional images of identity, in this case children's toys posessing hyper-inflated masculinity.

Sean Payne 2006

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