No 7 from the Waterskiing Series, 2006
oil on canvas, 12"x12"

In his eight-piece Waterskiing Series, Michael Van Den Besselaar deftly paints swim-suited girls waterskiing in Busby Berkley-esque formation. Van Den Besselaar’s cotton ball clouds and clear water acts as a Hollywood backdrop and infuses the work with a feeling of romantic artificiality that turns the landscape into an object of kitsch.