Frederick Douglass, a Centaur, serpents, Christ, & an assortment of mythical beasts are just some of the characters that appear within the world of Alex Gross lush, incongruous paintings in Discrepancies. Historical figures coexist with fashionable men & women, often on their cell phones, & frequently set in landscapes that simultaneously invoke both Gothic Flemish Art & the metropolitan, billboard-infested urban advertising that we find inescapable in our world today. Gross highly involved, figurative oil paintings defy categorization his unusual hybrids, for all their dreamlike mystery, powerfully convey universal