Artists in their pusuit to understand themselves and the world around them have been forced to face the pain of suffering.
Jerome Witkin, Enrique Chagoya, Gottfried Helnwein, James Croak and Priscilla Roberts all reach deepin their being to help us comprehend violence, inhumanity, and opression.
Helnwein, in his important "American Madonna" (Epiphany IV) painting, depicts with provocation the conflict between men of power and the weak.
In this present day setting, the police are confronting a divine being.

(catalogue, page 15 and 16)