While his creator Ben Barnes paints the first person experience of living in Vermont, Trotsky has no boundaries, no rules, no reputation to spoil. His first body of work was painted in secret and after over a year was installed and exhibited anonymously. This new collection of paintings can loosely be referred to as “gender studies.” Using pop-culture images as a language, Trotsky presents the viewer with painted “studies of gender.” Society’s stereotypes are blurred, often by a shifted context or anachronism. A subtext of feminism, commercialization, and body image finds a voice in bright colors, familiar yet enigmatic imagery, typography, and geometric composition. The paintings are all acrylic on panel, often utilizing angled panel edges or other three dimensional “art as object” construction.