Part biography and part theatre, Haley Hasler’s paintings depict ordinary life in extraordinary, exaggerated circumstances. She uses the self-portrait as a way to access the personal within an archetypal heroine. Through these iconic forms, she investigates artifice versus reality and interior versus exterior. The faces of her portraits convey the bewilderment and fatigue of motherhood in turbulent surroundings. Her work, which often includes depictions of her husband and children, explores the challenges facing a twenty-first century woman as she seeks to balance her roles as mother, wife, and individual.