The look says it all, 2022
Solo exhibition at Galerie Youn
The look says it all is a series of paintings that explores the act of looking, charting the differences between "looking at" and "looking in". The conflict of being apart from something and a part of something has been intensified by the isolation of recent years and the need for intimacy that pervades our digitally-driven lives. The paintings address this conflict and face the viewer with both feelings of escape and solace.
Wide-open compositions induce a state of calm. The placid panoramic
landscapes, often painted in the serene hues of dusk and dawn, invite one
to simply look at the horizon: a moment of quiet contemplation. Other works
— a car crash glimpsed through a window or a prime-time boxing match
enjoyed from an old recliner — place the viewer apart from the action: a
witness to the debacle. Magnified figures of flowers bring us in. There is no
distance between the viewer and the paintings. We become a part of the
scene. Close and intimate. It overwhelms us.
