In Storm Tharp’s work, characters and expressive moments emerge through washes of color and intricate linework. Each of his paintings works as an apparatus by which a character gets read as a performance, fantasy, or manifestation of what we want to become. Emphasizing the subtle space between shape and abstraction, Tharp questions the nature of selfhood: What is our inner identity versus what gets projected to the outer world? And how do the two combine or coalesce?