Thomas Anfield: Sock Monkey Scenarios

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Thomas Anfield, "Sock Monkey Scenarios," 2022

In Sock Monkey Scenarios Vancouver-based artist Thomas Anfield explores in his paintings the labyrinth-like and tangled conditions of being human through the symbol of the beloved Sock Monkey.

Inviting us into his carefully choreographed scenes, Anfield’s Sock Monkeys look curiously familiar as we encounter this folk-art puppet in universal human spheres by themselves, or in relationship with each other evoking immediate self-reflection as well as imagined realities. In their theatrical and anthropomorphic quality, each painting shines light on the complexity of being human and the constant shape shifting we experience in the Theatre of Life.