Tag: Candice Tripp

UK-based artist Candice Tripp's paintings of youthful characters frolicking through dark forests are at once haunting and whimsical. The children in her works, who often wear masks and anachronistic outfits, appear at once sinister, demure, and naive, sending mixed signals to her viewers. Are they specters who haunt these mythical forests, or lost souls struggling to get out? We last covered Tripp's 2012 solo show at Black Rat Projects here, and last week, she debuted new works for her one-night-only exhibition, "Credulous Morons," at Baltic 39 in Newcastle, where she lives and works. To mark the occasion, today we survey some of the paintings she has created since we heard from her last.