Conceal Project is awesome!

Conceal Project 091, Watercolor, ink, and gouache on Stonehnege paper, 7.5" x 5.5", 2008.

You have got to check out Dawn Black's show called Conceal Project at Curator's Office. Not only are these incredible works beautiful and technically brilliant, they are super affordable - a great way to start an art collection or add to an existing collection. I bought the two pictured here! There are others that are much more colorful if you're looking for something like that. Go by Curators and check them all out or take a look online here. Show was reviewed in Washington Post here.

Conceal Project examines the practice of masquerade, especially its role in relation to identity. The artworks not only explore the artist's own mania regarding disguised and surrogate identity, but of society's at large by depicting scenes of carefully selected concealed figures drawn in gouache and ink on paper. These figures are all "real" people (none being from imagination) who have been culled from the Internet and various periodicals. Of particular interest to the artist is a disguise's ability to make the wearer powerful through clandestine anonymity and, paradoxically its ability to allow the concealed person to be his or her authentic self. Oscar Wilde once remarked, "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Conceal Project 099, Watercolor, ink, and gouache on Stonehnege paper, 7.5" x 5.5", 2008.