Still Lives

Art enthusiast Kim Lord’s avant-garde self-portraits, Still Lives, are being exhibited at the Rocque Museum. The self-portraits depict herself as famous murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson among many others—and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night, all the staff, including Maggie Richter hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. Even though Lord never shows up to her gala. Fear has mounted since Lord went missing and there is suspicion on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson (Maggie's ex) who happens to be present at his ex's gallery opening.