Robert Benton Race's social commentary paintings are often colorful and composed of a multitude of layered strokes. But unlike the pastoral and riparian scenes, these pieces make use of appropriated imagery and materials that are more in tune with pop and abstract movements than with impressionism. Serial works such as Saturn Devouring His Children are ongoing, searing critiques of power and social advantage that resonate most when viewed in total rather than as individual paintings. Other pieces, like Dilatation and Do Funny, are self-sufficient works and have layers of meaning—from the explicit critique of public figures to deeply personal, obscure emotive references. Unafraid to grapple directly with the issues of our time, Race is remarkable for his melding of the personal and political in a way that shows us these two aspects of life are never actually separate.