The distorted dreamscape of Mark Tansey’s Transition Team (1997) is a mind-bending and enigmatic treatise on perception, rendered masterfully through variations on a single hue. Weaving together recognizable cultural images including Madonna, John F. Kennedy Jr., Princess Diana, Drew Barrymore and Kurt Cobain, the composition offers footholds into a familiar and concrete world, yet duplicating images permeate the canvas. The real folds into the imaginary and suggestions of meaning dissipate as the familiar becomes obscured and distorted.
