Check Out by John Nava

Oil on canvas over board, 63 x 63 inches

This painting by contemporary American realist John Nava plays on traditional religious iconography to show a young woman working in a video shop circa 2004. It is part of the Labor Arts exhibit Scenes of American Labor with art works that evoke the individual and physical experience of work. The entire series is housed at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.