"Me as Mildred Pierce" places the viewer immediately inside a scene of cinematic doubling, where Angela Dufresne collapses the boundary between self-portrait and filmic mythology. Painted in 2006 in oil on canvas at an ambitious 167.6 by 261.6 centimeters, the work channels the brooding psychology of Joan Crawford's iconic 1945 role while rerouting that emotional weight through Dufresne's distinctly contemporary, gestural sensibility. The large format commands physical presence, pulling the viewer into a painted world where identity is tried on like costume, scrutinized, and ultimately left productively unresolved. Dufresne's brushwork carries both urgency and theatricality, qualities she sustains across a body of work deeply engaged with cinema, desire, and the performative nature of selfhood. Dufresne has long been recognized for her ability to work across the registers of art history and popular culture without subordinating one to the other, and this painting stands as a particularly confident example of that balance. The choice of Mildred Pierce as an alter ego is far from arbitrary. Crawford's character is a figure of fierce ambition, maternal sacrifice, and profound misrecognition, all themes that resonate when filtered through the lens of an artist examining her own image in relation to an inherited cultural script. The result is a portrait that functions on several levels simultaneously, as self-examination, as homage, and as a subtle critique of the narratives women are handed to inhabit. Signed by the artist and offered through James Barron Art, this work represents a significant opportunity to acquire a large-scale painting from a pivotal moment in Dufresne's career.