Chester Arnold's exhibition features new and recent paintings surveying key themes from the artist's 50+ year career. The works foreground memento mori with humor, including the titular painting depicting a skull in Arnold's Sonoma studio surrounded by multicolored leaves, paintbrushes, palette, and drawing instruments—elements reflecting the artist's creative practice. The exhibition explores classical painting virtues and transcendental themes, examining the artist's dialogue with nature, mortality, and the creative process through imagery of forests, leaves, and human presence in the natural world.
