Beach:Summer at Expo Chicago 2018 (Navy Pier September 28 to 30).
Santoro lives and works in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. His work recalls the work of the abstract expressionists and can be considered a modernization of the style. The bold, thick, almost massive seeming, brush strokes on these paintings seem to roil. They almost jump off the canvas.
Other paintings by the artist often have titles that draw you in and make you look for the WHY. In these paintings it isn't a struggle to see the beach but in some of his other paintings you may find yourself searching for a fence or another landmark mentioned in the title (which I'm not 100 percent sure is always there). His paintings are always fun to look over.