Digressions
Digressions
Digressions, first exhibited at Luis de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles in 2022, presents intimately rendered trompe-l’oeil paintings that rely on successive, internal framing strategies. By juxtaposing seemingly disparate images, often with their edges exposed, these works create a virtual vortex of competing spaces that pulled the viewer in. Thematically unstable, the works in this exhibition juxtapose methodologies from the Western art historical canon with pictorial structures of our daily environment, creating a series of vitrine-like spaces that shift genres and subjects repeatedly. Spartan still lifes, aerial images, hyperextended panoramas, video game motifs and meticulously transcribed historical paintings all vie for attention, one becoming the threshold to the next. Through tactile juxtapositions and carefully calibrated tensions between surface and volume, flatness and depth, subject and frame, these works embrace the dysfunction that occurs as we consider something outside of its original state, while at the same time seeking to reconcile it into some kind of order.
