Since the mid1990s Chris Ofilis born 1968 painstakingly crafted paintings and sculptures have dazzledand often distressedviewers with a fusion of opposing forces sacred meets profane formal bows to demotic and exalted bleeds into vulgar. Paintings of rare beauty are propped on elephant dung deities squat to defecate and lovers embrace and yet are forcibly bound.This volume in Destes 2000 Words series is authored by Katherine Brinson Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim M