A epic painterly panorama of an alternate American 21st centuryNew York-based painter Keith Mayerson (born 1966) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture. He depicts familiar figures who have affected the country's consciousness-in addition to personal scenes and his abstract iconscapes -through microscopic brushstrokes and coloring. While his formal qualities hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images also evoke the spiritual and cultural commentary of the Symbolists as well as the more visionary aspects of American modernists and the Old this survey, Mayerson constructs what he calls a wordless novel for the 21st century: an alternate history in which the cultural landscape of American politics is reconstructed to emphasize belonging and understanding.