Painting by Christian Masarati Letts of a figure in a bowler hat, the face dissolving into a band of white and tan paint

Christian Masarati Letts

Painting by Christian Masarati Letts in wine, rose and plum oil on raw canvas

Christian Masarati Letts (b. 1978, London) is a painter and musician based in Los Angeles. His work stages collisions between religious iconography and classical mythology, with oil sinking into raw canvas and enamel asserting itself on the surface.

The rodeo arena is a contemporary site of ritual — bull riding becomes liturgy, where transcendence and catastrophe are inseparable.
Christian Masarati Letts, on St. Bronco