*Taste Sweet Revenge* sits between two of Cronin's modes. The looseness and text of his early work, the graphic and symbolic clarity that came after. The painting holds both.
The visual language traces back to hand-painted signage, the kind Cronin first saw when he moved to the Hudson Valley in the early 1990s. Bold outlines, flat color, words and image carrying the same weight. The black border around the field is one of the moves he kept coming back to during these years, a frame that holds the work and folds it inward.
48" x 48" · Oil paint on board · 2010 · Signed verso
