Carnival Love

About The Artist: Gordon Massman

Gordon Massman (b. 1949) is a self-taught painter and poet based in Rockport, MA. Massman paints with oils in fear of worthlessness, meaningless, futility and death. He works on impractically large canvases to capture equally large emotions, honing paint’s ability to communicate broader, vaguer ideas than language alone. In his subject matter, nothing is taboo. Using thickly layered paint and abstracted imagery, his works tell stories of...