Sharon Butler photoblogs a visit to the studio of painter Heather Leigh McPherson.

Butler writes that "the brightly-colored, mask-like images in [McPherson's] new work speak to the disconnect between who we imagine we are, who we are, and who we want to be. Fascinated by the notion that unfixed personhood runs counter to the myth of avant-garde individualism, McPherson uses color to create a shrill uncertainty in which forms shift between illusions of 3-dimensionality and flat graphic shape."