Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is pure kinetic disruption, a human special effect whose face bends reality on a frame-by-frame basis. Watch The Mask or his Fire Marshall Bill sketches and you see flesh performing the work of animation cels. His pivot into painting revealed the same energy in looser form: wild acrylics, enormous gestures, nothing held back. Electric lime and hot yellow smearing across the canvas, with rubber-band distortion waves rippling through a field of manic, saturated primaries.