“Game Face“

Dimensions: 48” x 60”

Medium: Oil on lace fabric

Artist: Greg Busch

A woman stares back at you—posed, painted, perfect—but not passive. Across her body, in bold colors and competing fonts, the words “Game Face” shout over her skin. Yet it’s the lace—delicate, intricate, domestic—that cloaks the entire piece in contradiction.

Greg Busch confronts the visual language of performance: the beauty standard, the branding of femininity, the silent cost of presentation. Is she seducing, or surviving? Is she seen, or only displayed?

There’s no shame in her nudity—but there is weight. She’s not just playing the game. She is the game board. And behind the stare is a question we’ve all been taught to avoid: what happens when the performance becomes the person?

A haunting, clever indictment of the curated self and the quiet violence of aesthetic expectation.