Chaos on canvas

“Vortex” by Kara Maria, acrylic on canvas, 2009.
Politics, porn, the state of the environment—these are all obscene things. The world can all be chaotic, and this is how San Francisco-based painter Kara Maria depicts it. With cascades and clumps of debris in a cacophony of color and demure or lewd figures, she encapsulates what’s so wrong with man’s treatment of each other and nature with Inviting the Storm.