Life, always hanging in the balance

Struggling within the jaws of the universeScott Meskill’s “Fall Down and Rust” coming to ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beachby Bondo WyszpolskiThe figures in Scott Meskill’s recent and not-so-recent paintings are pretty much cut from the same cloth. Generally speaking, they’re male, nude, and often in a curled or contorted position. None of them have smooth, flawless skin, and several call to mind an écorché, a figurural study in which the skin has been removed in order to highlig